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Beagle-V Ahead (self.riscv)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by 3arn0wl to c/[email protected]

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Does anyone have a Beagle-V?

Does it come with a pre-installed OS?

Is there a Debian image for it??

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[–] jcs 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you mean the original BeagleV Starlight board? Yes, I do have one. IIRC, it did not have an OS pre-installed, but it's been years since I received it, so don't take this as fact. Debian and Fedora were officially supported while the project was in active development. I'd have to look deeper or reach out to Beagleboard, but I cannot locate a Debian image for it at this time, as all links seem to redirect to the current BeagleV-Next board.

https://forum.beagleboard.org/t/beaglev-comparison/29678/6?u=jcs

[–] 3arn0wl 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thanks for this : you have a piece of significant tech history, I think. I'm really quite envious!

But I was asking about the new board... Fossicking around on the net a bit, I gather there's Ubuntu and Yocto available for it. Do you think the Debian image for the Lichee Pi would boot on it too?

[–] jcs 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm, I think the Lichee Pi image is almost guaranteed not to run on the BeagleV-Next, unfortunately. If you feel like creating a Frankenstein distro, I suppose you could leverage an existing/bootable kernel, etc, and swap out the rootfs with vanilla Debian.

I personally would expect Beagleboard to support Debian out-of-the-box, but it's still a recent release, so time will tell. RobertCNelson usually curates the Debian distros. Maybe it's worth reaching out to him on Beagleboard's Discourse forum or (Slack or Discord, I haven't kept up with it lately).

[–] 3arn0wl 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you. Very informative.