I'm looking forward to using a BeagleBoard XM together with a bunch of
USB devices to make a Debian-based MediaPC. However, I'm slightly
worried that I'm hooking up too much high-throughput stuff to make it
work properly. What I want to add:
- USB to Ethernet dongle, to have two ethernet ports to use the Beagle
as a router.
- USB HD, to use as a NAS.
- USB PCTV dongle, to use as a PVR, recording to the HD. Preferably
one with on-board MPEG encoding
- USB WiFi dongle, to use as a WiFi hotspot
Will the recording still be going, while there's heavy internet
traffic and music playing? Would it be possible to view one mpeg
stream (from the net or the HD, or maybe the microSD), while recording
another stream to the HD?
Aside from all these issues, does anyone have any experience importing
BeagleBoards to the Netherlands? Are there extra customs fees? And is
there any list of ethernet adapters with decent Debian driver support?
On beagle debian is the complete wrong choice. It is configured for armv4t, so you don't have vfp or neon support. It also doesn't support the DSP nor the SGX. If you want to play media, angstrom was and still is the right choice.
regards,
Koen
> I'm looking forward to using a BeagleBoard XM together with a bunch of
> USB devices to make a Debian-based MediaPC
On beagle debian is the complete wrong choice. It is configured for armv4t, so you don't have vfp or neon support. It also doesn't support the DSP nor the SGX. If you want to play media, angstrom was and still is the right choice.
How about Debian with a custom kernel? I rather enjoy Debian as a
general distribution, and it would save me a lot of time if I could
keep on using it. It's not a deal-breaker though. How's the networking
in Angstrom? I have no experience with it at all, but would it support
dnsmasq and such?
Well the SGX works fine on it.. 
but with 'armv4t' it's not worth it
at all for a media setup... Angstrom is really the only choice for
dsp.
Regards,
Kasperl <kasper@loopstra.nl> [2010-08-24 05:57:22]:
How about Debian with a custom kernel? I rather enjoy Debian as a general
distribution, and it would save me a lot of time if I could keep on using
it. It's not a deal-breaker though. How's the networking in Angstrom? I have
no experience with it at all, but would it support dnsmasq and such?
You would need to recompile whole debian on armv7, not just kernel. If you
like Debian, then you can try Ubuntu, it's compiled for armv7.
-- ynezz
> I'm looking forward to using a BeagleBoard XM together with a bunch of
> USB devices to make a Debian-based MediaPC
On beagle debian is the complete wrong choice. It is configured for armv4t, so you don't have vfp or neon support. It also doesn't support the DSP nor the SGX. If you want to play media, angstrom was and still is the right choice.
How about Debian with a custom kernel? I rather enjoy Debian as a
general distribution, and it would save me a lot of time if I could
keep on using it.
It's a custom kernel anyways, http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardDebian
upstream debian doesn't support the omap yet..
But there is a new arm port in development: armv7 with hardfp
http://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2010/08/msg00008.html
It's not a deal-breaker though. How's the networking
in Angstrom? I have no experience with it at all, but would it support
dnsmasq and such?
Networking works just fine in both.. it doesn't take much to route packets..
Regards,