Releases: BelaPlatform/bela-image-builder
v0.3.8rc4 EXPERIMENTAL
Usage:
follow the instructions here to uncompress the image and flash the resulting .img file to an SD card, put it into your Bela and boot the board. Sorted!
If you have trouble booting the new image on the BeagleBone Black, check out this.
Highlights:
- works on macos 10.15 Catalina without drivers
- 4.14 kernel
- Bela program runs at boot in 10 seconds
- distcc shorthands in place
- libmicrohttpd-dev for FAUST
v0.5.0alpha EXPERIMENTAL, DO NOT USE
Description: Debian GNU/Linux bullseye/sid
Release: testing
Codename: bullseye
Linux bela 4.14.108-ti-xenomai-r132 #1xross PREEMPT Sat Apr 25 17:27:37 UTC 2020 armv7l GNU/Linux
Known issues:
- Scope, Gui (and more in general
libseasocks) not working - Csound not working
v0.3.7d
v0.3.7b
v0.3.7a
Usage:
follow the instructions here to uncompress the image and flash the resulting .img file to an SD card, put it into your Bela and boot the board. Sorted!
Most relevant changes:
- New Bela IDE and core code, shareable libraries and GUIs
Updating:
Follow the instructions here to update your board
If you have trouble booting the new image on the BeagleBone Black, check out this.
v0.3.6b
Usage:
follow the instructions here to uncompress the image and flash the resulting .img file to an SD card, put it into your Bela and boot the board. Sorted!
Most relevant changes:
- Support for CTAG
- Installs
hvcc
Advanced usage:
-
some Beaglebones will not manage to boot from an SD card flashed with this image without a little help. In order to boot correctly on such an image, you will have to jumper pin P8_43 to P8_01 (GND) before you power on the board, to force the board to boot from the SD card. This is equivalent to pressing the "USER" button on the BeagleBone ( at the back just above the SD card slot), however the buttons tend to be fiddly, so jumpering is often preferred. Once the board boots successfully, you should run
/opt/Bela/bela_bootloader.shonce in order to copy the new bootloader to the eMMC so that next time it will boot without the jumpering/USER button. If you want to flash the eMMC with the content of the SD card (see below), then you can skip the bootloader copy step, as it will be copied as part of the eMMC flashing process. -
To flash the emmc once you boot from the SD card:
systemctl start bela_flash_emmc
you can then monitor the progress (not much really) with
journalctl -fu bela_flash_emmc
You will know it's done when the solid LEDs will power off and you only have one or more blinking.
to make it so that it will always flash the emmc upon every boot ( e.g.: to flash multiple BBBs):
systemctl enable bela_flash_emmc
to disable this:
systemctl disable bela_flash_emmc
v0.3.6a
- WARNING: Supercollider projects do not work at startup with this image. You need to update the Bela core code to the latest version to fix this.
Usage:
follow the instructions here to uncompress the image and flash the resulting .img file to an SD card, put it into your Bela and boot the board. Sorted!
Most relevant changes:
- Support for CTAG
- Installs
hvcc
Advanced usage:
-
some Beaglebones will not manage to boot from an SD card flashed with this image without a little help. In order to boot correctly on such an image, you will have to jumper pin P8_43 to P8_01 (GND) before you power on the board, to force the board to boot from the SD card. This is equivalent to pressing the "USER" button on the BeagleBone ( at the back just above the SD card slot), however the buttons tend to be fiddly, so jumpering is often preferred. Once the board boots successfully, you should run
/opt/Bela/bela_bootloader.shonce in order to copy the new bootloader to the eMMC so that next time it will boot without the jumpering/USER button. If you want to flash the eMMC with the content of the SD card (see below), then you can skip the bootloader copy step, as it will be copied as part of the eMMC flashing process. -
To flash the emmc once you boot from the SD card:
systemctl start bela_flash_emmc
you can then monitor the progress (not much really) with
journalctl -fu bela_flash_emmc
You will know it's done when the solid LEDs will power off and you only have one or more blinking.
to make it so that it will always flash the emmc upon every boot ( e.g.: to flash multiple BBBs):
systemctl enable bela_flash_emmc
to disable this:
systemctl disable bela_flash_emmc
v0.3.5b
Usage:
follow the instructions here to uncompress the image and flash the resulting .img file to an SD card, put it into your Bela and boot the board. Sorted!
Most relevant changes:
- Drivers are no longer required on Windows or Mac (starting from OS X 10.11). On Windows, with no drivers, the board will show up at 192.168.6.2; on Mac, with no drivers, it will show up at 192.168.7.2 (or
bela.local/). - board and host keeps MAC address between reboots, so that the host can uniquely identify each board and store settings
Advanced usage:
-
some Beaglebones will not manage to boot from an SD card flashed with this image without a little help. In order to boot correctly on such an image, you will have to jumper pin P8_43 to P8_01 (GND) before you power on the board, to force the board to boot from the SD card. This is equivalent to pressing the "USER" button on the BeagleBone ( at the back just above the SD card slot), however the buttons tend to be fiddly, so jumpering is often preferred. Once the board boots successfully, you should run
/opt/Bela/bela_bootloader.shonce in order to copy the new bootloader to the eMMC so that next time it will boot without the jumpering/USER button. If you want to flash the eMMC with the content of the SD card (see below), then you can skip the bootloader copy step, as it will be copied as part of the eMMC flashing process. -
To flash the emmc once you boot from the SD card:
systemctl start bela_flash_emmc
you can then monitor the progress (not much really) with
journalctl -fu bela_flash_emmc
You will know it's done when the solid LEDs will power off and you only have one or more blinking.
to make it so that it will always flash the emmc upon every boot ( e.g.: to flash multiple BBBs):
systemctl enable bela_flash_emmc
to disable this:
systemctl disable bela_flash_emmc
v0.3.5a
Usage:
follow the instructions here to uncompress the image and flash the resulting .img file to an SD card, put it into your Bela and boot the board. Sorted!
Most relevant changes:
- Drivers are no longer required on Windows or Mac (starting from OS X 10.11). On Windows, with no drivers, the board will show up at 192.168.6.2; on Mac, with no drivers, it will show up at 192.168.7.2 (or
bela.local/).
Advanced usage:
-
some Beaglebones will not manage to boot from an SD card flashed with this image without a little help. In order to boot correctly on such an image, you will have to jumper pin P8_43 to P8_01 (GND) before you power on the board, to force the board to boot from the SD card. This is equivalent to pressing the "USER" button on the BeagleBone ( at the back just above the SD card slot), however the buttons tend to be fiddly, so jumpering is often preferred. Once the board boots successfully, you should run
/opt/Bela/bela_bootloader.shonce in order to copy the new bootloader to the eMMC so that next time it will boot without the jumpering/USER button. If you want to flash the eMMC with the content of the SD card (see below), then you can skip the bootloader copy step, as it will be copied as part of the eMMC flashing process. -
To flash the emmc once you boot from the SD card:
systemctl start bela_flash_emmc
you can then monitor the progress (not much really) with
journalctl -fu bela_flash_emmc
You will know it's done when the solid LEDs will power off and you only have one or more blinking.
to make it so that it will always flash the emmc upon every boot ( e.g.: to flash multiple BBBs):
systemctl enable bela_flash_emmc
to disable this:
systemctl disable bela_flash_emmc
v0.3.4
Usage:
follow the instructions here to uncompress the image and flash the resulting .img file to an SD card, put it into your Bela and boot the board. Sorted!
Most relevant changes:
- added support for Bela Mini
- automatic detection of the board you run on (e.g.: BeagleBone Green, Black, Black Wireless, Pocket Beagle), so the appropriate device-tree is loaded for each.
- support for uboot overlays: add more overlays to
uEnv.txtwithuboot_overlay_addrX=where X is a number between 0 and 7
Advanced usage:
-
some Beaglebones will not manage to boot from an SD card flashed with this image without a little help. In order to boot correctly on such an image, you will have to jumper pin P8_43 to P8_01 (GND) before you power on the board, to force the board to boot from the SD card. This is equivalent to pressing the "USER" button on the BeagleBone ( at the back just above the SD card slot), however the buttons tend to be fiddly, so jumpering is often preferred. Once the board boots successfully, you should run
/opt/Bela/bela_bootloader.shonce in order to copy the new bootloader to the eMMC so that next time it will boot without the jumpering/USER button. If you want to flash the eMMC with the content of the SD card (see below), then you can skip the bootloader copy step, as it will be copied as part of the eMMC flashing process. -
To flash the emmc once you boot from the SD card:
systemctl start bela_flash_emmc
you can then monitor the progress (not much really) with
journalctl -fu bela_flash_emmc
You will know it's done when the solid LEDs will power off and you only have one or more blinking.
to make it so that it will always flash the emmc upon every boot ( e.g.: to flash multiple BBBs):
systemctl enable bela_flash_emmc
to disable this:
systemctl disable bela_flash_emmc