Re: Beaglebone Black/Green/Blue support (volunteering)

On 9/19/24 22:36, Sulev-Madis Silber wrote:
> it was at least fun to help to push to support all hw in bbb.  now
> it's dead. i mean yes, it's old now. h3 is blazing fast compared to
> this. unless it's just code optimizing issue

Sometimes, it is not the speed that matters in an application but, 
rather, the current draw, form factor, or interfaces.

In many of my remote-monitoring/control applications, the BBG is nearly 
ideal for the power profile, I/O capability, and form factor. I'm not 
using it as a desktop workstation.

I also appreciate that the processor isn't just a re-purposed GPU/CPU 
combo originally designed for a cell phone, with a binary blob 
controlling the GPU and then FBSD being loaded and executed by the CPU. 
This information may be outdated, but that was my understanding of the 
Pi processor architecture.

I'm unable to parse some of your other comments, but I will say that 
I've used 802.11b/g/a/n dongles (Wifi) on the BBG without too many 
issues. As for SDIO, that is (unfortunately) a closed spec, but there 
has been a lot of useful reverse-engineering that allows many SDIO 
peripherals to work fine (perhaps not under FBSD -- however).

--- Zach