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7 <updatetime type="date">12.12.2013 07:36:09 CST</updatetime>
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9 <time type="date">12.12.2013 07:36:09 CST</time>
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12 <pname>Beaglebone Black USB Hotplugging</pname>
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15 <categories>distro,library,utility</categories>
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18 <p><strong>Short Summary</strong></p>
19 <p>This project aims to solve the Hotplugging problem with the USB host<br /> driver on the Texas Instruments AM335x processor on the Beaglebone Black.</p>
20 <p>My name is Ulf Samuelsson, and eMagii is my own company.<br /> In my previous career, I was an application engineer for Atmel, and provided<br /> a lot of patches to the OpenEmbedded project and Buildroot free of charge.</p>
21 <p>Now I work as a consultant, but would&nbsp; like to continue to work in these<br /> projects, but beeing self-employed this will not bring any bread to the table.</p>
22 <p>Selected the USB hotplugging problem as a test, if this is feasible.</p>
23 <p><strong>What We Need &amp; What You Get</strong></p>
24 <p>Building Angstrom is quite time consuming, so I have invested in a workstation<br /> allowing me to reduce the buildtime from more than 3 hours, to less than one and a half.<br /> This cost me $3-4k.<br /> Will also pay for engineering time invested in this project. <br /> Normally I can charge $125/hour as a consultant, and hopefully crowdfunding will make commercial sense, as long as I can solve real critical problems.</p>
25 <p>If this works out OK, then I hope to look into how to configure the Beaglebone<br /> using a WiFi dongle in SoftAP mode.</p>
26 <p><strong>The Impact</strong></p>
27 <p>USB and hotplugging is like bread and butter. It is expected to work. Right now,&nbsp; it doesn&rsquo;t.</p>
28 <p>This is my first attempt at crowd-sourcing, but as you can see from the video in the Gallery, it already works on my system!</p>
29 <p><strong>Other Ways You Can Help</strong></p>
30 <p>Really, it is Texas Instruments that is is responsible for getting their BSP to work.</p>
31 <p>Talked to them, and they said they would solve it internally in 3.12-rc1, but according to<br />people testing 3.12, the problem remains.</p>
32 <p>Why not ask your local Texas Instruments to get the meta-beaglebone source code<br /> and have them release to the public?</p>
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36 <homepage>http://igg.me/at/eMagii/x/5581172</homepage>
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38 <shortdesc>This crowdfunding project aims to solve the Hotplugging problem with the USB host driver on the Texas Instruments AM335x processor on the Beaglebone Black.</shortdesc>