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The later generations based on the BMC2839 chip may have changed this a bit.Ĭan the BeagleBone use UEFI? Absolutely, but I don’t know if anyone has actually done a port.
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This leads to some weird start up code for the BMC2835 chip. The Raspberry Pi start up code is unique because the ARM A53 core is actually a slave processor of the video core processor.

UEFI is also available for ARM and this is what is used to boot Raspberry Pi. It was originally designed as a replacement for BIOS which dates back to the original PC days. UEFI as it is generally known is an open source project, started by Intel to support booting its x86 based products. EFI is kind of a universal start up code. You can describe it like a next generation version of U-Boot. The code is available here.īoot Code: Windows IoT Core requires EFI start up code. The one BSP that is a good reference and is available in source is the Raspberry Pi.

There is a nasty term for this but I wont use it here. If you ask Microsoft they will say you have to go to the vendor. I don’t know how many times I have asked the vendor for BSP information and they will say you have to go to Microsoft. Be warned, most vendors are quite protective of this information and if you ask for it, they will usually give you the runaround.
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This means you can uses add and remove drivers but you don’t have access to the actual driver source code. Be aware some BSP’s are only available in compiled form. Maybe if you sign an NDA with Qualcomm …but good luck with that. The source for DragonBoard’s BSP was not available at the time I was looking. The Joule is not an ARM platform so that leaves it out. BSP’s of note are the Raspberry Pi, Intel Joule and the Qualcomm DragonBoard 401C. There are a few established BSP’s for the other, already supported, IoT Core platforms and these can be valuable templates to get started. but it assumes and already developed base BSP. Microsoft publishes a lot of really good information on building IoT core images with its IoT Core manufacturing guide. This is good information for customizing images and doing things like adding or removing drivers etc.

The Windows IoT Core documentation is another story. While doing the Windows Embedded Compact (WEC) BSP port, I found this information to be invaluable. Be prepared, it over 3000 pages of nitty-gritty detail on every subsystem available on the chip.
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Here is what I found.ĭocumentation: The AM335x technical reference manual for the CPU chip is readily available from Texas Instrument’s download site. Undaunted, I decided to do a bit of research on my own. This made me wonder if it would possible to port Windows Embedded Core to the BeagleBone platform? It seems Microsoft prefers to work with the silicon vendors themselves with this type of endeavor, and obviously so, as who else knows the chips innards better than the creator. And now that I moved it to GitHub I continue to receive regular hits (see my previous post). I have had hundreds of downloads when the site was hosted on Codeplex. I developed the BSP as an open source project with all the source code available online.

This board comes with a Texas Instruments AM335x Arm Cortex-A8 processor. Some of you may know that I am the author of the Windows Embedded Board Support Package for the BeagleBone development board.
