<div dir="ltr">Why not program the BBB's bare metal? Too much error-prone hassle to initialize everything?<div><br></div><div> Bob<br><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 7:17 PM, tim Rowledge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tim@rowledge.org" target="_blank">tim@rowledge.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On 23-12-2013, at 4:00 PM, Jon Hylands <<a href="mailto:jon@huv.com">jon@huv.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> The real win over the Beaglebone Black (I have one of those too) is that there is no complication of the OS, and it boots instantly when you turn on the power. You're working on the metal, which can be fun in some cases.<br>
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</div>Run RISC OS. It’s about as close to bare metal as you can get and still have a helpful OS around to start from. Unlike unixy OSs it lets you get straight to the metal; no ring 0 authorisation hoops to jump through.<br>
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</div>Trojan: Storage device for replicating codes...<br>
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