<div><br></div> Good evening all...<div><br></div><div> I just started on a new project, and it happens to be ARM based. The bought me two TS-7800's from <a href="http://embeddedarm.com">embeddedarm.com</a>. It's a 500Mhz ARM9 with 128Mb RAM. They were excited that it came with Debian, and had a somewhat modern kernel. Unfortunately for me, it's Debian 3.1, and much of the hardware isn't supported under the more modern releases. That's sent me wandering a bit. I've put Slackware on almost everything I've worked with for many years, so this seems like an obvious thing for me to consider jumping into.</div>
<div><br></div><div> So, my initial questions.. Is this worth pursuing, or am I going to run into serious and unsurmountable headaches? </div><div><br></div><div> The board is kinda funny. Well, imagine that, an ARM being not like a PC. :) They have their own boot loader, that only knows how to go to the second partition for an uncompressed kernel, then partition 4 for the root partition. It can either boot to the built on NAND, a SD card or a micro SD card. </div>
<div><br></div><div> Am I going to be able to support all the devices? It has DIO for a 4x4 matrix keypad, LCD for a 2x24 LCD screen, and a whole variety of serial and other ports. On this project, I'm going to use at least some of everything.</div>
<div><br></div><div> It doesn't have a VGA connection, so the console has to go to the serial, which I don't suspect will be a serious problem. </div><div><br></div><div> I'm not exactly sure how much is in the kernel, and how much is in user space. The problem that's tripped me up today is a wealth of information, and now trying to rebuild the kernel to have the FUSE module (built in or module, as long as I have it). </div>
<div><br>-- <br>I Þðéáí ôé;<br>- Socrates (15/Feb/399 BC)<br>
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