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Beaglebone Essentials

Beaglebone Essentials

By : Rodolfo Giometti
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Beaglebone Essentials

Beaglebone Essentials

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By: Rodolfo Giometti
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Overview of this book

If you are a developer with some hardware or electrical engineering experience who wants to learn how to use embedded machine-learning capabilities and get access to a GNU/Linux device driver to collect data from a peripheral or to control a device, this is the book for you.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Installing the Developing System
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1. Installing the Developing System
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Embedded world terms
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A system overview
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Checking out the preloaded tools
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Setting up a developing system
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(Re)Installing Debian
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Summary
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2. Managing the System Console
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2. Managing the System Console
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Getting access to the serial console
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Basic system management
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A quick tour of the bootloader
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Summary
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3. Compiling versus Cross-compiling
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3. Compiling versus Cross-compiling
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Native compilation versus cross-compilation
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Compiling a user-space software package
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Compiling the kernel
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Summary
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4. Quick Programming with Scripts
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4. Quick Programming with Scripts
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The GPIO subsystem
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Managing an LED in PHP
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Managing an LED in Python
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Managing an LED in Bash
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Summary
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5. Device Drivers
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5. Device Drivers
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What is a device driver?
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The modutils
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Writing our own device driver
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Summary
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6. Serial Ports and TTY Devices
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6. Serial Ports and TTY Devices
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What is a serial port?
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Implementation of serial ports
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The serial ports in Linux
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The communication parameters
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A simple serial echo
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Managing a real device
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Summary
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7. Universal Serial Bus – USB
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7. Universal Serial Bus – USB
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What is the Universal Serial Bus?
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The electrical lines
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The USB bus in Linux
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Accessing the raw bus
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Summary
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8. Inter-integrated Circuit – I2C
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8. Inter-integrated Circuit – I2C
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What is the I2C bus?
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The electrical lines
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The I2C bus in Linux
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Getting access to I2C devices
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Accessing the bus directly
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Summary
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9. Serial Peripheral Interface – SPI
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9. Serial Peripheral Interface – SPI
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What is the SPI bus?
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The electrical lines
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Getting access to the SPI devices
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Accessing the raw bus
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Summary
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10. 1-Wire Bus – W1
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10. 1-Wire Bus – W1
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What is the 1-Wire bus?
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The electrical lines
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The 1-Wire bus in Linux
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Getting access to 1-Wire devices
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Summary
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11. Useful System Daemons
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11. Useful System Daemons
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What is a daemon?
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Useful and ready-to-use daemons
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Writing a custom daemon
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Index
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Index

A quick tour of the bootloader

As stated, at the beginning of this chapter, using the serial console, we can get access to the bootloader.

Actually, the BeagleBone Black has two bootloaders: one named SPL, which is the prebootloader that initializes the hardware components, such as the RAM and some mass storage devices, and the second named U-Boot, which is the real bootloader that initializes almost all the peripherals and has support for, among other things, booting over a network, and a scriptable shell through which basic commands can be given. Now the one million dollar question is: why should a developer be able to manage the bootloader too?

Well, the answers are more than one, however, the most important are as follows:

  • By passing a well-formed command line to the kernel, we can change some functionalities in the running filesystem.
  • From the bootloader, we can easily manage a factory restore method (this is usually made with a hidden button in a tiny hole on the system's box. By...
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