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| 01:00.33 | alex4nder | hey |
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| 01:45.31 | f1yback | well despite the disk resetting every once in a while |
| 01:45.45 | f1yback | got a ubuntu-server 10.04LTS vm installed |
| 01:45.52 | f1yback | so I might be able to start compiling arm code :) |
| 01:46.39 | f1yback | what was that toolkit you guys recommended again? |
| 01:47.18 | f1yback | oh yeah crosstool |
| 01:47.39 | f1yback | Canadian Cross Builds |
| 01:47.45 | f1yback | no I am not making that up it's on the howto |
| 01:47.48 | f1yback | hahaha |
| 01:51.22 | alex4nder | yah, kegel's tools work |
| 01:52.20 | f1yback | flicks off his esxi box |
| 01:52.23 | f1yback | WE ARE GOING THRU |
| 01:52.34 | f1yback | goes into captain psycho from "the black hole" |
| 01:52.43 | f1yback | cranks the hd up to full throttle |
| 01:52.59 | f1yback | so the disk can bitch all it wants |
| 01:53.00 | f1yback | TOUGHT |
| 01:53.21 | alex4nder | alright |
| 01:55.31 | f1yback | will see this old arm7tdmi router load a bootloader or uclinux kernel and spam to serial port, before he dies, ONE WAY OR ANOTHER |
| 01:55.41 | f1yback | :P |
| 01:56.16 | f1yback | besides I am testing some old disks I have to replace that dying 40 |
| 01:56.20 | alex4nder | I think I could have hand assembled you a program in the time it's taken you to get a compiler setup |
| 01:56.36 | f1yback | I got problems bro |
| 01:56.40 | f1yback | head is going with the body |
| 01:56.45 | f1yback | I zone out badly at night |
| 01:56.48 | alex4nder | werd. |
| 01:56.50 | f1yback | all like a daydream |
| 01:56.58 | alex4nder | do you have a copy of the ARM Architecture Reference Manual? |
| 01:57.02 | f1yback | nope |
| 01:57.08 | f1yback | i'm just going with existing code |
| 01:57.18 | f1yback | just to prove this old router board is viable |
| 01:57.18 | alex4nder | if you're going to mess with those chips, I highly recommend it. |
| 01:57.20 | f1yback | then I will go from there |
| 01:57.27 | f1yback | I can't code I hated it in college |
| 01:57.34 | f1yback | but I am willing to give it another shot |
| 01:57.40 | f1yback | for embedded |
| 01:57.56 | f1yback | I got a bunch of old arm and mips routers and devices |
| 01:58.04 | alex4nder | if you want to learn about embedded development, you should go the other direction: with a board you know actually works |
| 01:58.07 | f1yback | some x86 embedded boards and a ppc one |
| 01:58.12 | f1yback | well |
| 01:58.15 | f1yback | check this out |
| 01:58.20 | f1yback | it's from a linksys befsr41v |
| 01:58.23 | f1yback | err 41b |
| 01:58.25 | f1yback | v1 only |
| 01:59.13 | f1yback | ugh if I can find the url |
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| 01:59.57 | sjhill | i wish i knew how he got back in here |
| 02:00.31 | alex4nder | haha |
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| 02:01.12 | f1yback | http://imgur.com/vupIG&D86Xl&6R5in |
| 02:01.24 | f1yback | it's actually 2 boards inside the bottom is basically a 5 port switch board |
| 02:02.19 | f1yback | if this works well I might get more off ebay if they are < $20 |
| 02:03.11 | f1yback | http://imgur.com/6R5in.jpg |
| 02:03.15 | f1yback | that's what it's all about |
| 02:03.17 | f1yback | right there |
| 02:07.38 | f1yback | no ubuntu packages for crosstool eh? |
| 02:16.20 | f1yback | ugh |
| 02:16.31 | f1yback | i think I am out of juice, forget the hd, have to pick this up tomarrow :/ |
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| 02:38.37 | f1yback | thx guys I will pick this backup tomarrow |
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| 14:29.02 | adyer | Anyone good with the mtd subsystem? I have a board with a 32Mbyte NOR flash and the customer wants more storage. The SoC chip select for the flash maxes out at 32Mbyte, so I have to use other chip selects, which are hadcoded and not contiguous to the main one. If I put down a 64Mbyte flash and have the flash broken up into sections can mtd handle that? |
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| 14:37.23 | roxfan | i don't know much about it but sony's prs-500 had two flash chips (nor and nand) and it worked somehow |
| 14:38.46 | adyer | unfortunately space is at a premium, adding more packages would lead to a re-layout of most of the board :-( |
| 14:39.48 | adyer | already in BGA, so hard to put something down just to try it out |
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| 14:49.33 | roxfan | you can probably try it out by making two partitions with a hole in addressing for the current chip |
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| 15:02.32 | miltonm | adyer you probably need a custom mapping driver that hides the split |
| 15:03.06 | miltonm | (but i'm just a reader of mtd) |
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| 20:24.18 | kazaa_lite | hi all |
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| 20:41.11 | prpplague | kergoth: hey |
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| 20:49.36 | masked | excuse the noob question |
| 20:49.49 | masked | but i have an arm based gps with wince |
| 20:50.02 | masked | it boots up with the gps app automatically, by default, of course |
| 20:50.19 | masked | what would be a method to circumvent this and just load the wince desktop? |
| 20:50.39 | masked | it has usb2 if that helps to serial or whatnot |
| 20:50.49 | masked | iirc, it also has SD |
| 20:56.38 | prpplague | most likely it has a compiled in registry that starts the application |
| 20:56.51 | prpplague | the only way to change it would be to recompile the binary that is loaded on the device |
| 21:01.37 | SpeedEvil | Googling may show results |
| 21:01.48 | SpeedEvil | google for similar devices, with similar functionality and software |
| 21:02.27 | roxfan | masked: windows ce != windows mobile, most likely it doesn't even have the desktop or any other apps besides the gps thing |
| 21:03.56 | SpeedEvil | That is sometimes not the case from random reading I did a while back about my GPS |
| 21:04.10 | SpeedEvil | They may not bother stripping them down much, as it takes time |
| 21:04.32 | masked | yeh, old wince from my memory has a UI |
| 21:04.46 | masked | this thing is good but was cheaply done |
| 21:04.52 | masked | so i dare say the ui is still there |
| 21:04.59 | roxfan | look for the firmware update |
| 21:05.08 | roxfan | check what's inside |
| 21:05.16 | masked | i'd prefer to do that than to try to cross-compile a linux image for it |
| 21:05.22 | masked | good idea |
| 21:05.46 | SpeedEvil | regrettably, putting linux on these things is often far from trivial |
| 21:07.36 | masked | i'll report back when i actually have it in my possession and attempt something |
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| 21:28.23 | f1yback | so |
| 21:28.24 | f1yback | vm is up |
| 21:28.26 | f1yback | LETS DO THIS |
| 21:28.37 | f1yback | just have to figure out how to crosscompile :/ |
| 21:28.41 | f1yback | there goes another 6 months |
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| 21:35.29 | f1yback | hey SpeedEvil1 |
| 21:35.34 | f1yback | you done any cross compiling yet? |
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| 21:58.59 | f1yback | bbl |
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| 23:39.04 | f1yback | ok compiling tools installed |
| 23:39.10 | f1yback | now just have to setup crosstool |
| 23:44.20 | f1yback | ugh |
| 23:44.20 | f1yback | crosstool looks like a nightmare |
| 23:45.06 | f1yback | doesn't appear to have a arm7tdmi target either :/ |
| 23:47.53 | f1yback | starts to ponder qemu |
| 23:57.46 | f1yback | ugh :/ |
| 23:58.21 | SpeedEvil | qemu isn't a general answer. |
| 23:58.55 | f1yback | lot easier than this |
| 23:59.51 | f1yback | I been away from this stuff too long, I am lost now |
