Am 2008-03-08 07:59:54, schrieb Bill Gatliff: > It isn't an officially-supported architecture, so you'd have to build up > the Debian system from scratch for it. I think it would be a cool job, > but maybe a bit ambitious on top of all your other plans. Right, but curently I am using arm/i386 packages unpack it, delete all stuff not needed and repack it... (most is working directly without intervention of my part from a script I have written) I want to put an 480x256dor matrix 64color display on my Computer and have the need for many software which I do not realy like to code my own. It is already enough, If I have to read the xsepcs to get an xserver runing... I do not find if realy funny to code a xserver, but I need one so I must code one (but it will only support the absolut minimal functions of X) However, I run many software on it and the FULL installation would be around 400 Debian packages > Shouldn't be a big deal to get it going. Sounds like your bootloader > knows how to read from CF already? If that's the case, then you've > beaten a big part of the problem already. I have had to install a little ASM routine into the ROM of the LH7 and now it know HOW to load the BSD image, but it does not work for Linux maybe the CF-Card IS already working (and I do not know it, since the bootloader is not working with it...) > Build up a zImage file, put it on your CF card. Then use your done, it is sitting in the root. > bootloader to drag the file into memory. The first instruction is the > first four bytes in the file, e.g. wherever you download zImage to, > that's where you'll jump to. > > But you have to set r0, r1, r2 to the proper values so Linux knows > what's going on when it starts. R0=0, r1=your machine id (register one > at arm.linux.org.uk), r2 is the address of a "ATAGS" structure that > tells Linux where your physical memory and root filesystem are. > > Don't worry about the root filesystem yet. Get the kernel going to the > point where it's complaining that it can't find one, then check back > here. Once you get that far, the rest can be pretty easy... > > > >Pic: <http://freenet-homepage.de/michelle.konzack/electronica/files.jpg> > > Sorry, doesn't seem to work. I had problems with that... And I have put it here: <http://freenet-homepage.de/linux4michelle/electronica/files.jpg> Note: The Image is already outdated because since today (Saturday 2007-03-08) I have 3 files and 1020 pages more documentation including 800 pages about TINI-OS (I need to get "sdcc" running) And of course, I need to find the section of the bootloader for the ARM and HOW to code my own one... > >but the PCB'S for VIA C7 are very complex to build so I was searchin in > >the ARM community... maybe an error but my "bigger" computer should not > >more consume as 5 Watt (without display) since I have only Li+ Batteries > >of 3.7V/5A (flatpack of arround 150x50x6mm) > > Hmmm. 5W is quite a bit in the ARM world. So if the LHA7404 is > powerful enough computationally, then you should be ok. I do not know, whether it is enough... Maybe I should use an ARM11? And of cources I am working on energy eating electronic... (In general sensors of any kind... but I have already found more modern µChips which are consuming only 2-5% of the old ones...) > ... or the time to reinstall it? :) I know some peoples with problems to install Debian on it, so I have choosen not to reinstall it and waste my time anywhere... :-/ > Agreed. You obviously have some good programming skills, so all the > examples should be very helpful. Oh, I am not THE genious one, but I can say: "It works for me!"; and since most of my Electronic I build are embedded systems without Internet connection or something like this, I can say, it is working "very" secure. > A bunch of people have made programming i2c pretty darned easy under > Linux. No worries there! :) AFAIK, the guy who has written the 1-Wire temperature sensor module has written in the source, that someone can use this source as template to code stuff for other 1-Wire modules... :-) > You could go that way, but it might be easier to just some GPIO lines Right, and in the Datasheets/AppNotes of Maxim there are many examples how to do it (and even Linux is mentioned) > and bit-bang it on your own. But that's a question to answer later--- > you need a kernel first! FullACK... > >Do not ask me HOW my Appartement looks like... > >(a submarin is nothing against) > > Kinda like my office! :) And we are not alone... :-) Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator 24V Electronic Engineer Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ ##################### Debian GNU/Linux Consultant ##################### Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 +49/177/9351947 50, rue de Soultz MSN LinuxMichi +33/6/61925193 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com)
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