Beagleboard:BeagleBone A6 Image 06.18.2012

This page contains the release notes for BeagleBone A6 Image 06.18.2012

Release Notes
The 2012.06.18 image includes over 4 months of changes compared to the previous image (2012.02.14) and expands the number of supported capes. To make development easier for people a number of features have been added: PWM support, SPIdev support and 1-wire emulation.

All warnings and errors seen during bootup have been fixed so only actual errors get printed when they occur. A normal boot should have no errors or warnings at all. The USB driver has had a lot of changes, but it's hard to say if they have been an improvement or not, please try your favourite USB devices and report any issues you see at http://e2e.ti.com. If you have a display capable cape attached you will get a GUI with a few things preinstalled to play with, XBMC being one of them. Report any issues or requests to the beagleboard mailinglist.

Supported capes:
 * DVI
 * VGA
 * 3.5" LCD (backlight with userspace hack)
 * 4.3" LCD (backlight with userspace hack)
 * 7" LCD
 * TT3201 CAN
 * SERL-01 (CAN)
 * SERL-03 (RS232)
 * Battery LBO
 * BeBoPR cape
 * Weatherstation

Boot changes:
 * Kernel is now loaded from /boot instead of VFAT, 'opkg upgrade' now works for kernel updates as well

Kernel changes:
 * Updated to 3.2.18
 * Initialize all PWMs by default
 * Enable PRUSS UIO module
 * Enable SPIdev by default
 * Enable w1-gpio by default
 * Fix libertas based wifi firmware loading
 * Disable heartbeat LED on crash and shutdown
 * Use 16x averaging for AIN instead of 2x to reduce touchscreen jitter

Userspace changes:
 * Update to node 0.6.x
 * Massive improvements to bonescript
 * Launch GUI if there's a display capable cape attached