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BeagleBone Black device #34

Closed gunbatt closed 2 years ago

gunbatt commented 2 years ago

Is it possible to add the BeagleBone Black supported device list?

volumio commented 2 years ago

Unfortunately no, this device is too old and from what we know, no-one is using it

gunbatt commented 2 years ago

I use this device and have been for a very long time. The sound is just great. It would be nice to upgrade to the new version Volumio 3. bbb_b bbb_f bbb_t

volumio commented 2 years ago

Very nice indeed! If it's possible, I suggest to replace BBB with PI4 (or Tinkerboard S). You'll get a nice speed bonus + OOTB Volumio3

gunbatt commented 2 years ago

The adapter for SPDIF is made specifically for BBB. It will take a lot of time, effort and money to replace BBB with PI4. But who knows what the result will be?

volumio commented 2 years ago

There's only one way to find out...

ashthespy commented 2 years ago

Is it possible to add the BeagleBone Black supported device list?

Everything is possible - the question is if it's worth it ;-) To add it to the new build system should be straight forward - Gé and me only added devices we own and can test.. It should be rather trivial - you don't need to do any porting per say, but just transfer things to the new device template. You would just need to pull in volumio/platform-bbb and copy some parameters over from bbbconfig.sh and bbbimage.sh

So if you have the resources and inclination, nothing stopping you - but you could have guessed by now that this isn't something particularly interesting device for the team :-)

EDIT: FWIW, you would be better off using a newer kernel from https://github.com/beagleboard/linux - it looks well maintained and uptodate.