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You're reading from BeagleBone Black Cookbook Over 60 recipes and solutions for inventors, makers, and budding engineers to create projects using the BeagleBone Black

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2015

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781783982929

Length 346 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Debian

Concepts

Robotics

Author (1):

Charles A. Hamilton

Preface

1. Setting Up for the First Time

2. Basic Programming Recipes FREE CHAPTER

3. Physical Computing Recipes Using JavaScript, the BoneScript Library, and Python

4. Exploring GNU/Linux Recipes Using Bash, Autotools, Debugger, and systemd

5. Basic Programming Recipes with the Linux Kernel

6. Run Faster, Run Real Time

7. Applied Recipes – Sound, Picture, and Video

8. The Internet of Things

9. The Black in Outer Space

Index

This recipe will build the kernel and modules from scratch and copy them to a deploy or temporary directory.

Connect and power up your board via USB to your host computer; then, open a terminal window.

To perform this recipe, follow these steps:

First, log in as the root user and then download the kernel file from Robert C. Nelson's git repo:

$ sudo -i
# git clone https://github.com/RobertCNelson/bb-kernel.git

Navigate to the new directory that git created for you on your BBB with this command:
```
# cd bb-kernel/
```
At this point, you have two options for the kernel version you prefer to use: either v3.8.x or the latest experimental v3.14.x. You'll notice that the git command also generates a tmp directory for the build:
- For the 3.8.x Wheezy branch (this version comes with full cape support) use this command:
```
~/bb-kernel# git checkout origin/am33x-v3.8 -b tmp
```
- For the v3.14.x Jessie branch (which comes with better USB and Ethernet...

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