> Well OK, it looks like I'm too stupid to use EmDebian. ?????? > - EmDebSys is for smaller installations, and EmDebian is what I need; 'smaller' OK, but not very small systems. For those you need uclibc with busybox. > - I can't find where to download anything called EmDebian, nor its > component package files; Don't know either. > - The ToolChain enables cross-building on a workstation, for the target > platform, but working directly on the target should be simplest; Euhm no, this requires you to setup an entire compiler toolchain on your embedded target. If this is really small (and on flash) this is near to impossible. > - The Snarf 'n' Pick OS Generator somehow creates a filesystem (even > though it seems unrelated to the EmDebian project), but there's no hint > as to how one would get this on the target platform; I would guess a JTAG probe (e.g. BDI2000). Most of us are working in an engineering environment, and this kind of information is kind of self-evident. Perhaps we should add stuff like this. denx.de has some basics covering this IIRC. > - I don't want to do an NFS boot; Trust me, if you do development, you do ;) Otherwise, every change you make requires you to cycle through the flash loading procedure. > - The 'Quick Start Guide' doesn't give any perspective, but then, what > do I expect for free? They don't have to care whether people actually > use this or not. What are you talking about. If you want significant feedback, you at least need to give useful information about your target system. Every embedded system is different and the ppl on this list work on a miriad of different version, processors and targets. The choice of your distribution and/or system and configuration depends on your resources. If you are so hung up on the 'free', I will not stop you to go to a commercial vendor: I'm sure they will be very happy to shower you with sales talk, sell you an expensive and node locket product and hang you out to dry. If you send a support question to such a company, you might get lucky if you get a reply within weeks (not days) which vaguely scratches your problem. In either case, if you want to do embedded development, you will need to learn. If you don't, there are companies that specialise in implementing it for you (I think mind is one of them, there are others). > I guess I'm supposed to implicitly know everything about everything > in order to use EmDebian; no educated beginners. I've searched all > available resources, including newsgroups, and no directions. This is why there's a mailing list. There are some ppl working on and with emdebian. > I was hoping to pitch in to the LocustWorld project, but I just don't > have weeks to do research on basics. This depends on what you consider as 'basics' :( -- Marc Leeman R&D Firmware Engineer Barco Control Rooms Noordlaan 5, Industriezone, B-8520 Kuurne (BE) Tel. +32 56 368 428 http://www.barcocontrolrooms.com mailto:marc.leeman@barco.com
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