Re:PocketBeagle – A $25 open-source USB-key-fob computer
by seabird on Thursday September 21, 2017 @12:01PM
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"Good documentation" might be a bit of an overstatement. The second you get off the beaten path with a Raspberry Pi, things can get pretty hellish. Try bare metal C on just the second rendition, and weep before the non-existent documentation for the SoC they used. The official response to this issue (to paraphrase) was "it's fairly close to the previous version; you can figure it out." I don't want to know what sort of suffering you would have to go through trying to do bare-metal programming on an RPi 3.
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Re:PocketBeagle – A $25 open-source USB-key-fob computer
by khedoros1 on Thursday September 21, 2017 @06:55PM
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There's at least a forum section dedicated to it, with a few posts containing collections of resources: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=72
Re:PocketBeagle – A $25 open-source USB-key-fob computer
by seabird on Friday September 22, 2017 @07:20AM
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That doesn't change the fact that the documentation you need isn't there, and that they have no plans to provide it. Can you figure it out? Sure. Am I going to pull my hair out doing trial and error trying to figure out the GPIO pinout for an SoC that they have no interest in providing documentation for when I can just buy a product with better documentation? Of course not.