HI

This is just a small info I think it might be useful

Sometimes it's not practical to develop everything on the physical hardware
and there some emulator really gets handy..

Check out some interesting demo, download 2MB and see emulated arm
do accelerated framebuffer graphics (this is impressive):
http://free-electrons.com/community/demos/qemu-arm-directfb/

And here is complete step-by-step how to install debian-arm on PC under qemu
emulation (I've tried this, and it works). You can use it for my
debian for tomtom
as well just take adequate kernel that works for qemu (yes it can be later than
2.6.13)
http://www.aurel32.net/info/debian_arm_qemu.php

Now as we have emulator probably running tomtom original application would be
possible as well. Someone already did it on zaurus
http://www.zaurus.org.uk/opentom/index.html

If he did it on zaurus, it could be emulated with qemu too. Maybe some more
info is needed what did he do to make it work. I've tried kernel that works on
debian and initrd from original ttsystem. Kernel boots and starts
initial rc file
and even it attempts to start ttn application but complains that the devices are
missing (no GPS hardware :) and some directories in /proc/barcelona are missing
ok, emulating is not so straightforward but should not be too difficult either.
All this hardware can be provided from host system and
given to qemu like some serial ports...

Best regards, Davor

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