<div>Hi Guys</div>
<div>I have been following these posts long enough now for me to actually want to dig out my E3 and begin work.</div>
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<div>Is there a place with a definitive guide to do this, including a schematic for the cable?</div>
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<div>Regards<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:lists@mice-software.com">lists@mice-software.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:lists@mice-software.com">lists@mice-software.com</a>> wrote:
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Quoting David Given <<a href="mailto:dg@cowlark.com">dg@cowlark.com</a>>:<br><br>><br>> As far as the kernel goes, pretty much everything works, mostly. There's a
<br>> nice user-friendly OpenEmbedded distro that works if you want to try it ---<br>> but you'll still need a level converter cable to reflash the thing,<br>> of course.<br>><br><br>I had already made a cable before it arrived - a simpler zener diode
<br>cable. It seems to work fine anyway, as I was able to flash it with<br>the "starter" Linux distro you can download. Next step will be to try<br>and build something myself ;)<br><br>> I've had Debian running quite successfully on mine, using a USB1 hard drive
<br>> and wireless ethernet. It's slow but not as much so as you might think;<br>> recompiling the kernel takes a few hours. The slow hard drive means that<br>> anything data-centric is unpleasant, and the low amount of memory means that
<br>> anything memory-centric is even more unpleasant because it involves swapping,<br>> which involves that USB1 bus... but it's perfectly usable as a<br>> testbed system.<br>><br>> If you want to do anything involving audio encoding/decoding or video
<br>> encoding/decoding you'll probably need to work the DSP; the ARM is<br>> low-powered<br>> to begin with, and has no FPU. There are some open-source DSP tools,<br>> but there<br>> may not be an open source OMAP compiler (I haven't found one).
<br>><br><br>I had a quick Google around, the only thing I found is<br><a href="https://www-a.ti.com/downloads/sds_support/LinuxDspTools/index.html">https://www-a.ti.com/downloads/sds_support/LinuxDspTools/index.html</a>
,<br>which is supposedly some sort of Linux-based (but I don't think Open<br>Source) tools for OMAP5912 development (ours is a OMAP5910?). I can't<br>install it presently anyway as I have no X-enabled Linux machines, and
<br>it has some bizarre InstallShield installer.<br><br>Anyway, it's good to see a community still exists. I thought the<br>mailing list looked a bit quiet before I posted, but there seems to be<br>plenty of people still :)
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