[arm-allstar] Next BBB update

[James R. Pilgram]

Aloha,
Will this require a ground up rebuild or an upgrade. It's not a big deal 
to do the ground up for me but I have built a few nodes for others 
around the country who might not be able to do a ground up rebuild.. 
Easy to burn and ship a new card I guess. Just wondering.

Aloha Jim NH6HI

On 08/25/14 11:46, Doug Crompton wrote:
> Just a little little tease regarding the next release of the BBB image.
>
> There have been very few problems with the current release but the 
> biggest complaint or concern is the vulnerability of the USB to power 
> spikes, EMI, etc. Unfortunately when this happens the current kernel 
> often does not recover gracefully and a reboot is almost always 
> necessary. This is annoying with local servers but for those deployed 
> in remote areas it is just not acceptable.
>
> The latest ArchLinux kernel along with a minor fix to the simpleusb 
> channel driver has solved that problem. This is in testing now and so 
> far it seems rock solid. You can remove and replace the USB cable from 
> the BBB while connected and it restores instantly. Thus if a USB spike 
> takes out the connection it will recover. This adds a huge increase in 
> reliability to the BBB. So for those of you who are experiencing these 
> problems help is on the way!
>
> The new kernel seems to start faster and although still under testing 
> it appears the 30 second boot delay that is now in rc.local can be 
> reduced significantly or possibly eliminated. The entire startup 
> process is looking a lot faster. I have gone from power up to 
> connection to a node in less than a minute.
>
> Other things that should make it to the next release are GPIO and 
> backup/restore and a few other nice utility scripts like weather 
> alerting. Right now we are shooting for mid September.
>
> There are lots of ideas brewing about future updates and if anyone has 
> any particular (realistic) needs in additional features or can provide 
> additional features that would be useful to all please email me.
>
> *73 Doug
> WA3DSP
> http://www.crompton.com/hamradio*
>
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