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Little-endian ARMv7-A from Beagleboard.org.

Documentation

The Beaglebone is supported on Gentoo, thanks to Beagleboard.org who provided us with hardware to bring this forward.

Specifications

Board specifications:

CODE
# ARMv7-A 500MHz(USB power)/720MHz(PSU power) TI AM3358/9 ARM Cortex-A8 processor
# 256MB DDR2 RAM
# SMSC LAN8710A Ethernet card
# 
# 1x microSDHC slot
# 1x USB 2.0 Type-A port
# 1x mini-USB 2.0 OTG port
# 1x RJ45
#
# Reset and user-defined button

/proc/cpuinfo

CPU information:

FILE /proc/cpuinfo
Processor	: ARMv7 Processor rev 2 (v7l)
BogoMIPS	: 498.89
Features	: swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp thumbee neon vfpv3 tls 
CPU implementer	: 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant	: 0x3
CPU part	: 0xc08
CPU revision	: 2

Hardware	: am335xevm
Revision	: 0000
Serial		: 0000000000000000

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This page is based on a document formerly found on our main website gentoo.org.
The following people contributed to the original document: Mike Frysinger, Ned Ludd, Robin H. Johnson, Alex Tarkovsky, Alexey Shvetsov, Raúl Porcel, Joshua Saddler on April 28, 2013.
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