Hello,
I'am a professionnal hardware designer and I work on design based on Sitara AM335x based processor.
On my point of view, a very good design start for this processor is the beaglebone. G. Coley from beagleboard.org have done a very nice design with good documentation.
I'm not a specialist, but my software colleague tell me there are some software problem with the Beaglebone, specially with recent kernel, like SGX support, LCD capes support and with new linux features like Device tree.
It seem that there are very few people working on the software support of beaglebone, and no official TI support... (CircuitCo build the board, but may not be able to give good software support)
I wonder why TI don't give linux software support for the beaglebone, because I think the open source design would become very significant in embedded world tomorrow.
For exemple, I choose the Sitara because the beaglebone exist (it is a good reference design, and the community can give feedback on it). And It seem that a lot of people do that.
But If the software support is not good, the software colleague tell me to choose another processor ! (excuse me but linux software folk don't like specific solution like ARAGO or TI code composer studio)
So, where is TI interest ?
Best regards
thierry
