Hi All
Qualify my level of understanding in so far as I'm mainly a hardware person, analogue, assorted embedded micro’s without an OS, good C programming exposure and a smattering of Linux in the form of x86 and Arm. Got a couple of immediate applications to throw at the board and wondering how far I head down this path or wait till things mature a bit.
User experience after a week.
Great, absolutely excited about where this will go but frustrated the “how to” and related sources have moved on and no longer seem related. Quick Start guide is fine but the sources and “how to” are no longer one and the same. Probably where at one point in time but that was before I got my boards.
Once I got over the initial playing around I wanted to rebuild the kernel to bring in a couple of drivers. FTDI and Camera mainly to get some real world data to operate on. While I've done it on a few platforms before I'm no expert and the “how to” differences make me wonder where the problems lie. Probably me but...
Open sourcing this will have massive benefits and I'm excited to see what turns up. Assorted peoples will come on board as assorted point in time with differing levels of understanding. The initial "how to" is a good leg up to capitalize on the man years you guys have put in. These will be hardware people dabbling in software and software people dabbling in hardware. There is a bit of everything on this board, hardware in the form of interfaces and the FPGA, software in to form of the Arm and the Epihpany.
To capitalize on the skills of this wide audience they need to be quickly brought up to scratch. From what I've seen the current binary image seems to work fine and that would be a good reference point. Seems most of the "how to" work has already been done, just fragmented.
Any thoughts?
Cheers
Stefan