ECE497 Notes on Upgrading to 3.0

I've been running the 2.6.28 kernel for a while now and I think it's time to upgrade to 3.0.

Getting the SD image
There are a bunch of SD card images here. I downloaded Angstrom-TI-GNOME-image-eglibc-ipk-v2012.01-core-beagleboard-2012.01.11.img.gz and was able to get it to boot, however nothing shows in the DVI display.

Updating and Upgrading
It did the following to make sure the image is up to date.

beagle$ uname -a Linux dhcp-137-112-41-101 3.0.14+ #1 Thu Dec 22 09:53:00 CET 2011 armv7l GNU/Linux beagle$ cat /proc/cmdline console=tty0 mpurate=auto buddy=none buddy2=none camera=none vram=12M omapfb.mode=dvi:640x480MR-16@60 omapdss.def_disp=dvi root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 ro rootfstype=ext3 rootwait

beagle$ opkg update beagle$ opkg install git beagle$ git clone git://github.com/MarkAYoder/BeagleBoard-exercises exercises beagle$ opkg install gcc gcc-symlinks libgcc-s-dev -force-overwrite

This may do the gcc install too.

beagle$ opkg install task-sdk-target (took about 8 minutes)

Also did beagle$ opkg install evtest

Here's what's needed to run the Flot demo beagle$ opkg install nodejs         (took about 1 minute) beagle$ opkg install alsa-utils     (took about 1 minute)