The document discusses the BeagleBone Black, an open-source hardware board used in a workshop. It describes the board's features like its ARM processor and pre-loaded Debian operating system. It also explains how the board boots from its default images stored on an included eMMC card, using a multi-stage bootloader process to load the Linux kernel and root filesystem from partitions on the card.

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BeagleBone Black

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What to Expect?
W's of BeagleBoard
BeagleBone Black Features
Booting the BBB with default images

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W's of BeagleBoard
An open hardware system, low cost board
Beagle Stands for
B – Bring your Peripherals
E – Entry Level Cost
A – Arm Cortex-A8
G - Graphics and DSP accelerated
L - Linux & Open Source Community
E - Environment for innovators
Two types
Original BeagleBoard – Revisons A, B, C1, C2, C3, C4
BeagleBoard-xM
Enhancement of Original – Revisions A, B, C
BeagleBone White
BeagleBone Black revision C is used in this workshop

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BeagleBone Black Features
Image under “CC BY-SA 3.0 US” from BBB SRM (Figure 18)

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BBB as Available From Manufacturer
Available with 4GB eMMC Card
No Nand Flash
Pre Loaded Debian Distro
USB Cable
Additional Required Components
Serial/USB to TTL Cable
Power Supply (optional)
USB Keyboard & Mouse (optional)

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Booting With Default Images On
eMMC Card
Debian Distro
vfat partition of ~120 MB
x-Loader (MLO) – Stage 1 Bootloader
u-boot.bin – Stage 2 Bootloader
uEnv.txt – Environment for Uboot
am335x-boneblack.dtb – Device Tree Blob for BBB
ext4 partition
Contains the Root Filesystem
Kernel Image

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What all have we visited?
W's of BeagleBoard
BeagleBone Black Features
Booting the BBB with default images

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