BeagleBone Black - what still needs to be done for audio?

[Russell Haley]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Koz Ross <koz.ross at retro-freedom.nz> wrote:
> Hi Russ,
>
> Thank you so much for your thorough response! It actually answered some
> additional questions that I had in addition to the one I asked. I'm
> not super-familiar with the BBB or its hardware, but I'll take this
> chance to learn more.
>
> Also, is there someone responsible for wiki maintenance? In case I discover
> that this issue is not an issue anymore, who should I notify to have that
> fixed?

I haven't gotten a lot of traction when I've asked to update the wiki
(could reasonably have been nobody wanted my changes!). I think your
best bet would be to post here and notify developers of your requested
changes. The theory being your updates will be considered valuable and
other people will get sick of updating the wiki for you and give you
access. In practice, I've found that anything I wanted to change is
already on the site and it's just not as visible as one would like.
Something I noticed, though, is the Beaglebone page says some
functionality is only available on current and that hasn't been true
for a while. :-/

By the way, my previous message assumed you were running a FreeBSD
Host. You can download and dd the image in GNU/Linux (and technically
on Windows too), but to do kernel development, you'll need a FreeBSD
machine with at least 10.1-Release on it. I've run a development image
in a VM before, but VirtualBox SD card-reader drivers and enabling COM
ports can be tricky. I typically use a PC-BSD host (physical and
virtual) as it gets you up and running with a GUI machine without too
much headache.

Cheers,

Russ