# Porting FreeRTOS to BeagleBone

**URL:** <https://forums.freertos.org/t/porting-freertos-to-beaglebone/5079>\
**Category:** Kernel\
**Created:** [August 17, 2012, 7:07am UTC](https://forums.freertos.org/t/porting-freertos-to-beaglebone/5079 "2012-08-17T07:07:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://d2v6vdsk2p900z.cloudfront.net/original/1X/7fc8fdb729c645aab5b20282bbe34e57cb407be6.jpeg) [@system](https://forums.freertos.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 7:07am UTC](https://forums.freertos.org/t/porting-freertos-to-beaglebone/5079/1 "2012-08-17T07:07:33Z")

</div>

**[aeyes](https://sourceforge.net/u/aeyes/)** wrote on [Friday, August 17, 2012](https://sourceforge.net/p/freertos/discussion/382005/thread/e1505a87/#527a):

Has anyone already done the port on BeagleBone - [http://beagleboard.org/bone/](http://beagleboard.org/bone/) with all required drivers and network stacks ?

I am planning to make a port of FreeRTOS to the BeagleBone board. By porting I mean that I will be integrating the drivers obtained from Texas Instrumernts Starterware with FreeRTOS and contribute the port here, I will need around 3 to 4 months as I will not be working on this full time.&nbsp; The Starterware drivers are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, visit [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/.](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/.) I am a little confused here, can I integrate these drivers with FreeRTOS ?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://d2v6vdsk2p900z.cloudfront.net/original/1X/7fc8fdb729c645aab5b20282bbe34e57cb407be6.jpeg) [@system](https://forums.freertos.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 7:14am UTC](https://forums.freertos.org/t/porting-freertos-to-beaglebone/5079/2 "2012-08-17T07:14:40Z")

</div>

**[aeyes](https://sourceforge.net/u/aeyes/)** wrote on [Friday, August 17, 2012](https://sourceforge.net/p/freertos/discussion/382005/thread/e1505a87/#da9e):

By the question “Can I integrate thethese drivers with FreeRTOS”, I meant, legally can I integrate these Drivers with FreeRTOS and yet keep the drivers under the the Creative Commons License? Pardon my ignorance.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![rtel](https://d3iykfbgfh8zhg.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.freertos.org/rtel/32/31_2.png) [@rtel](https://forums.freertos.org/u/rtel)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 8:22am UTC](https://forums.freertos.org/t/porting-freertos-to-beaglebone/5079/3 "2012-08-17T08:22:58Z")

</div>

**[rtel](https://sourceforge.net/u/rtel/)** wrote on [Friday, August 17, 2012](https://sourceforge.net/p/freertos/discussion/382005/thread/e1505a87/#5728):

Yes - not a problem.&nbsp; Only the FreeRTOS kernel is covered by the FreeRTOS license.&nbsp; Code that just uses the kernel, or communicates with the kernel through it’s API remain under their original license.

Regards.