From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!news.snarked.org!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 08:15:35 -0500 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada: A beginners experience Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 09:15:35 -0400 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: <32lbldtqd70h33guro3biq4uiocbtt8hak@4ax.com> References: <1d3743b1-1a36-429d-92c7-9ae0e7c16e63@googlegroups.com> <0aced154-7279-44e7-8c98-95f730987bfa@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-Lt67xU/CX3RhL+CGtoUJQ6RIL87zHJ4gUWCvAbcWjYlHmRVBWmZSBfSbMw/r21a06br/FHsN6MnumPx!6hnVWbEQdcroLOsdHaWT/FWftA4EDLrcL2cpz84u5uCPf8TKt1BN1UyfRW2aLmyY1veiVn/z X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2261 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:53944 Date: 2018-07-23T09:15:35-04:00 List-Id: On Sun, 22 Jul 2018 21:04:05 -0700 (PDT), blakemichael073@gmail.com declaimed the following: > >One of the unusual parts of learning technology in general is the 'moving target' nature of the field. Tutorials that are very practical in nature are obsolete very quickly when the complier/operating system/drivers etc are updated. This takes a little getting used to, and is very different to my previous field of study. The BBB is especially afflicted with that... The earliest documentation is based upon Angstrom OS, later stuff on Debian Wheezy with run-time cape-manager to load kernel device tree overlays... While the last year or two have seen the drop of the cape-manager and a move to u-Boot loading of device tree overlays. And let's not think about the two competing PRU systems... -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/