Please, where is the latest beagle rescources?

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Its getting frustrating for me to obtain the correct latest information to effectivly learn the correct way to play with my BeagleboardXM. I also see it happening to others too. I know the recent post about Angstrom site being the best place for info on building Angstrom would make sense. But it doesn’t seem to be updated much. The news post that appears on the main page is from March last year? The wiki link on the link bar is broken. The wiki link in the post from Koen goes here, http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/Angstrom . The bottom of that page says, "
Angstrom (last edited 2009-10-19 01:06:12 by 54) " Is the time stamper broken or is that the newest info in there? Did the BBxm exist for the public in 2009?

Am I missing something somewhere? Is there a place on the internet that maintains the bleeding edge Beagleboard info?

Thanks anyone who clarify this for me and sorry if this looks like a bitch post. I’m no programmer and I got my BBxm on Dec 25th and haven’t put it down since. I kinda feel like I’ve been spinning my wheels when I work for days on a tutorial with no date on it only to find out “we don’t build uImage like that anymore”

Again, sorry for my bitching. Just point me in the right direction to the latest info

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Why does the site need to be updated? Most of the development is the
source tree's.

If you'd like to follow angstrom development on the beagle:

http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/building-angstrom
http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/

Otherwise this list,

http://beagleboard.org/
http://elinux.org/BeagleBoard

Regards,

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What are you actually trying to do with ur BB-xM? You can never find all info in one link(Never expect to be spoon fed).

Please give more details about what you need help.

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Hi and sorry about the little bit of venting on my post :smiley: I’m trying to sucessfuly compile a complete Angstrom distro before I move on to the projects I have in mind. I guess I will just start asking questions if I can’t find what I need and create my own docs :slight_smile: Here we go with my 1st question…

In the build/conf/local.conf file, there seems to be 3 main requirements at minimum, BBFILES, DISTRO, MACHINE. please correct me if I’m wrong.
The name for DISTRO, how does it compare to the git checkout name to grab the files?For example here’s a clip from a paper that explains the steps required to download source and build…

$ git clone git://git.openembedded.org/openembedded.git openembedded
$ cd openembedded
$ git checkout origin/stable/2009 -b stable/2009
$ cd ${OE_HOME}/openembedded
$ git pull

Here’s the instructions for the local.conf:

BBFILES = “/path/you/want/for/OE/openembedded/recipes//.bb”
DISTRO = “angstrom-2008.1”
MACHINE = “beagleboard”

I don’t understand how the “DISTRO” name and what branch to checkout tie together. How can I tell what the Distro name should be for any given branch I want to build from.

Could someone please explain?
I’m a newb
Thanks
mark

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Or what do I search for? I’m not sure how to word it. I have alot of reading ahead to understand how it all comes together. Even a link in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you
Mark

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Or what do I search for? I'm not sure how to word it. I have alot of reading ahead to understand how it all comes together. Even a link in the right direction would be greatly
appreciated.

Did you try following http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/building-angstrom ?

Or using the online builder http://narcissus.angstrom-distribution.org/ ?

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Wow ok are you speaking of me