My company has been using the BeagleBone REV C boards for several years. Our most recent purchase, however, came entirely with REV D boards, which are not compatible with Windows CE. Our entire system and custom firmware run on Windows CE, but on the REV D boards the HDMI display does not come up (no image). Migrating to Linux is not an option for us at this time.
it would probably be best to contact the developers that did the original Windows CE port… NXP stopped production of the HDMI phy used on the BBB (A → C) years ago, there are none of those left, so Rev D uses ITE HDMI phy..
Regards,
Are the BeagleBone industrial boards (based on the Black) on the Rev D spec now too, or still on Rev C?
They are on version REV D; that’s why I have a problem — HDMI doesn’t work on this version with Windows CE.
It’s been over a year now since the last NXP/Board was built, every design of the BBB is Rev D with ITE at this point…
If you need Rev C, best place is eBay right now, we had a user post in this forum last month selling off his collection of boxed Rev C’s..
What would be ideal for me is for it to run Windows CE with the REV D version, so it is compatible with my project.
Your best bet is to contact the original developers of the Window CE build you are currently using.
The image used at the time was a stock image downloaded from the Beagle website.
please share the link, of where it’s listed.
The only one i can find is here: Windows Embedded Board Support Package for BeagleBone
that links to dead 3rd party..
Some one else created an archive: https://codeplexarchive.org/?search=beaglebone
So maybe this version is what you used? https://codeplexarchive.org/project/beagleboneBSP
looks like 2015 was last:
idk..
best to go on eBay and get old boards, looks like developers behind that port are not longer developing..
The only information I have is that the ready-made image was downloaded from a website. No one from the development team who might have that information works at the company anymore. How did you manage to access that CodePlex archive? It’s asking me for authentication to access it.
Click “cancel” they tell you the correct login, that’s their anti-ai-anti-bots protection..
Are there any components from Rev C that aren’t available any more?
This is by no means low effort, but it sounds like a big problem, and luckily everything’s open source. Could you send all your requirements to a PCB manufacturer, and order some custom board from them?
Is it a matter of ordering a new board? As I understand it, the pinmux mapping between the AMX33 processor and the IT66 is missing, which is required to initialize HDMI in Windows CE. For testing purposes, I flashed an SD card with Debian, and it works perfectly.
Yes the nxp HDMI phy went eol years ago, that’s the issue, you can’t get them anymore
People have been discussing this fact for the better part of a year by now…
I am surprised that we’re still getting these nobody told me topics.
It works with a 7-inch display using the Linux operating system, but it doesn’t work with Windows CE.
@RobertCNelson Ah, the fun of sourcing hardware!
@TreinDiego Is it possible to share what’s driving the requirement for Windows CE, or preventing the switch to Linux then? I’ve got no other ideas right now, how we can help.
i think it’s fair to say documentation and communication of changes aren’t optimal. yes, if someone continually monitors all new forum topics they would know this change happened by now, but that’s not a reasonable expectation.
this was discussed briefly in another topic without much resolution.
While I can sympathize to a certain extent to the first part of your argument, running a business of any size with little or no regard for your own due diligence is just a sure-fire path to problems of this nature.
The fact that you did not receive notarized notification of product change doesn’t absolve you from a responsibility to not run your business into the ground.
If you insist on moving through life with a sack over your head except for taking it off once or twice a year, please don’t blame others if things have changed in the meantime.
That’s not a reasonable expectation.