Power for your embedded ideas.
I like embedded systems. They are beautiful and simple, yet powerful enough to surprise you. They surround us :-) Beware, they are watching you ;). Recently I have applied for the AROS bounty number 60 - port of AROS to the SAM440. Yes, going back to PowerPC world for some time.
The board is already at home and working. I have made a PPC crosscompiler toolchain on my laptop and have a very nice dev environment. I make the PPC build on x86 machine, boot on sam440 through TFTP protocol and watch the debug output sent over serial line on x86 again. Recently, I have even added the rs232 terminal support to my beloved Eclipse IDE, and I don't need to switch between Eclipse and xterm anymore :)
The porting process may be divided into few logical parts:
In the mean time I will still hunt for bugs in x86_64 AROS. They are really nerving but hopefully solvable. Recently, it became possible to start the InstallAROS tool on 64-bit machine, format AFFS partitions and install 64-bit AROS onto the drive. AROS can even boot from harddrive after successful installation process. Amazing :)
The board is already at home and working. I have made a PPC crosscompiler toolchain on my laptop and have a very nice dev environment. I make the PPC build on x86 machine, boot on sam440 through TFTP protocol and watch the debug output sent over serial line on x86 again. Recently, I have even added the rs232 terminal support to my beloved Eclipse IDE, and I don't need to switch between Eclipse and xterm anymore :)
The porting process may be divided into few logical parts:
- Writing the second level boot loader
- Making AMCC440EP aware Kernel (with kernel.resource as it's interface)
- Porting the core system
- Testing and debugging
- Porting the contrib/necessary (including the USB stack and TCPIP stack)
- Testing and debugging
- Even more testing and debugging ;)
In the mean time I will still hunt for bugs in x86_64 AROS. They are really nerving but hopefully solvable. Recently, it became possible to start the InstallAROS tool on 64-bit machine, format AFFS partitions and install 64-bit AROS onto the drive. AROS can even boot from harddrive after successful installation process. Amazing :)
Labels: PPC
2 Comments:
I need help have teh x86_64
intel duo 2.44 ghz
crashed after run leaves a blank screen menu get stuck lefet on the screen.
DOesnt recgonize any hardrive nor the ram drive.
I do liek it better then linux i mena reall it got my video card a 8900 sli nvida
Maek it fo teh itanium ppc is in the right step
I wouldnrt mind test it fro the my type of system.
oops yeah testing
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