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