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Re: New to arm programming



On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 04:25:37AM -0400, Michael D. Crawford wrote:
> 
> I think it would also be helpful to me if I got some kind of
> arm-based desktop machine that I could run Linux on.  This wouldn't
> be so much to develop software for this chip, as to have a convenient
> platform to study things like arm assembly code and kernel
> programming in a way that would be easier to do than working on an
> embedded chip.  Can you recommend a machine to buy and tell me where
> I could find it?  Is the Corel Netwinder still manufactured?  One of
> those would probably work well for me.

Its no longer Corel, but you can still buy the ARM Netwinder (now
called the 2100) from www.netwinder.net.  As far as I know they are not
being manufactured, only selling off inventory of the ARM machines.
You'll want to format the hard drive and install a newer software
distro (probably debian...) on to it.
 
> Finally, can you recommend some books and websites I can read to learn about arm 
> assembly code and the processor architecture?

We have a bit of a collection on ftp.netwinder.org in pub/docs,
although it centers on the StrongARM110 and peripherals in the
netwinder... there are quite a few other ARM cores out there, with
varying features.

-- 
Ralph Siemsen
www.netwinder.org



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