Fred27 David, NP. but I am whipped as I'm here in Texas and have run up to a wall with the BBAI as the "Survival Guide" installing the new io tree comes back with:
"make: *** No rule to make target 'BeagleBoard-DeviceTrees/src/arm/arm5729-beagleboneai-custom-.dtb'. Stop." this bad news. Not everything in this world is easy. I have used Ti's Pin-Mux tool on other devices. but this is a nightmare. well anyway back to my bed for another 3 or 4 hours.
The tools to build PetaLinux for a particular Xilinx board need to run on a Linux desktop. Bizarrely, I had some trouble running it under WSL on Windows 10 (unsupported) so decided to get it running as officially supported on Ubuntu LTS first. That has been even flakier!
Sorry - I seem to be dragging your poll off topic.
Christina, I want suggesting that your poll was "which is better" but it's a question that seems to always descend into unpleasantness regardless of how nicely it starts. Maybe the E14 community will prove to rise above it though!
With regard to road tests, some may require Windows, some may require Linux. Some may require other tools or skills that not everyone has. I think that's just how it goes. A devices manufacturer is the customer. They're paying for the road tests by providing the equipment for free. It's up to them to decide their target market. I don't see that they have an obligation to be "fair" to everyone.
Personally, the PetaLinux side of the Xilinx tooling is driving me nuts right now. It can't be installed on Windows. Installing and running it - even on a completely clean Ubuntu 18.04 LTS machine as supported - is proving to be an exercise in frustration! No reason for me to expect they should have a Windows version though. I have to work with what they provide and support.
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