Good evening all... I just started on a new project, and it happens to be ARM based. The bought me two TS-7800's from embeddedarm.com. 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.
So, my initial questions.. Is this worth pursuing, or am I going to run into serious and unsurmountable headaches? 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. 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. 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. 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). -- I ήπιαν τι; - Socrates (15/Feb/399 BC)
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