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Aloha, <br>
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.<br>
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Aloha Jim NH6HI<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/25/14 11:46, Doug Crompton wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font style="" face="Tahoma">Just a little little
tease regarding the next release of the BBB image. <br>
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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.<br>
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The latest ArchLinux kernel </font><font style=""
face="Tahoma"><font style="" face="Tahoma">along with a minor
fix to the simpleusb channel driver </font>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!<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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<b><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4">73 Doug</font><font
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