Jesse,
As first document, I suggest the TI MPU chip data sheet. You will have abou=
t 400 pages of good reading for the beach.
In order to fully appreciate the magnificent value of the Beaglebone Black,=
 you need to understand how the  4 different cores talk to each other. You =
have two ARM cores, and 2 PRU which are 200MHz micro controllers.
The Beaglebone website has a lot of doc, and a good forum.

That should really get you started.


Just my $0.02,

Jean-Paul
N1JPL

> On May 11, 2016, at 11:18 PM, Jesse Lackey <jsl-ml@celestialaudio.com> wr=
ote:
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> Hi all, I'm looking at beaglebone for a possible project, and=20
> conveniently have a week-long beach vacation coming up (drats!  just=20
> when I could start a fun new project! :) so I thought I'd bring some=20
> hardcopy literally beach reading with me.
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> Any suggestions?
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> I'm pretty experienced with EE stuff and software development, some=20
> linux knowledge (desktop, very little embedded) and had a long ago=20
> painful experience trying to deal with all the kernel drivers and=20
> whatnot for gumstix, this being the pre-PI, pre-Beagle days and they had=
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> very little support.  So that would be what I'd like to know about -=20
> wrangling linux to help you on the software side, and get out of the way=
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> when your low-level software is talking to your hardware.
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> Anyway, any thoughts appreciated, thank you!
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> (I suppose I could print a large pdf as well, on the double-sided=20
> printer at work...)
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> J
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