Beagleboard:BeagleBone A6 Image 06.18.2012
This page contains the release notes for BeagleBone A6 Image 06.18.2012
Release Notes
The 2012.06.18 image includes over 4 months of changes compared to the previous image (2012.02.14) and expands the number of supported capes. To make development easier for people a number of features have been added: PWM support, SPIdev support and 1-wire emulation.
All warnings and errors seen during bootup have been fixed so only actual errors get printed when they occur. A normal boot should have no errors or warnings at all. The USB driver has had a lot of changes, but it's hard to say if they have been an improvement or not, please try your favourite USB devices and report any issues you see at http://e2e.ti.com. If you have a display capable cape attached you will get a GUI with a few things preinstalled to play with, XBMC being one of them. Report any issues or requests to the beagleboard mailinglist.
Supported capes:
- DVI
- VGA
- 3.5" LCD (backlight with userspace hack)
- 4.3" LCD (backlight with userspace hack)
- 7" LCD
- TT3201 CAN
- SERL-01 (CAN)
- SERL-03 (RS232)
- Battery LBO
- BeBoPR cape
- Weatherstation
Boot changes:
- Kernel is now loaded from /boot instead of VFAT, 'opkg upgrade' now works for kernel updates as well
Kernel changes:
- Updated to 3.2.18
- Initialize all PWMs by default
- Enable PRUSS UIO module
- Enable SPIdev by default
- Enable w1-gpio by default
- Fix libertas based wifi firmware loading
- Disable heartbeat LED on crash and shutdown
- Use 16x averaging for AIN instead of 2x to reduce touchscreen jitter
Userspace changes:
- Update to node 0.6.x
- Massive improvements to bonescript
- Launch GUI if there's a display capable cape attached
