My preferred route is the Nerves project (http://nerves-project.org http://nerves-project.org). It has had support for BeagleBone’s for a long while (https://gi

My preferred route is the Nerves project (http://nerves-project.org http://nerves-project.org). It has had support for BeagleBone’s for a long while (https://github.com/nerves-project/nerves_system_bbb https://github.com/nerves-project/nerves_system_bbb). I haven’t had a chance to try Nerves with the new BeagleBone Pocket yet. There may be an issue with using the EEPROM and the nerves flash utility fwup, though if so I’ll likely work on adding support for it myself as the Octeva SoC is pretty awesome for a lot of applications. Especially since it has support for the onboard PRU’s which come in handy for critical timing. As for the buildchain, Nerves has a Docker based build image (on OS X) or native Linux builds both based on buildroot which you can easily customize to include the PRU build tool chain. You can include a custome make package in buildroot or Elixir dependencies. Though this route would require writing some amount of Elixir. So if Nerves is not your cup of tea, you could checkout Yocto or even raw Buildroot or the new Ubuntu core stuff. For buildroot it’s a matter of configuring it and putting it all in a Docker image (or similar) and using `make` and it builds the firmware blobs for you.