Chris, There is some documentation that I grabbed. The pdf's should be burried somewhere on my site at http://mainland.essentialgoods.com/matt. IIRC there is at least a pinout and some (probably not applicable) software interface info. Look in the VTOS/Documentation (?) area.
Matt -- On Thursday 09 May 2002 10:46 am, Christopher Kemp wrote: > On that theme, I've just got a Helio which I am planning to use as a handy > screen / touchscreen combination for an electronics project on a boat. So > I'll be writing a application to talk to a microcontroller via the serial > port. Before doing that I was going to try and fix the emulator and also > the reboot bug mentioned below, so I'll let you know how I get on. > > Chris > > P.S. If anyone knows anything about the 'high speed' serial port could > they send me any info - the only reference I found on google was to vtech's > site, which was broken. > > On 2002.05.09 11:46 Matthew Welland wrote: > > Hi Angelo, > > > > I'm glad to get your questions so no sweat there. I hope you don't mind > > but I > > am Cc'ing the pgui-devel list since that is where any Helio related > > discussion takes place these days and this gives me a chance to slip in a > > > > little progress report. > > > > I changed the configuration of pioclinux to have less filesystem space > > and > > therefore more memory available and have found that things seem to run > > faster > > and more reliably. The 2M limit is a challenge but I am so far able to > > get > > all the stuff I need into that space. I wish sound worked and that some > > of > > the anoying but mostly harmless bugs such as needing two or three resets > > on > > boot where fixed. Overall though I'm finding the current kernel > > satisfactory > > and the Helio a neat little device to work with. > > > > I have scm and slib (*) up and running on my Helio and I have a basic > > scheme > > interface to picogui written and working nicely. I am writting an HP > > calculator like app which is partially working. I want to clean up the > > calculator app a little and then I will make my latest stuff available. > > Next > > I want to add Jacal (*) to my calculator. > > > > No one has, to my knowlege, worked on the kernel at all since I "fixed" > > the > > serial driver. > > > > The only other person working on the Helio that I know of is Mark > > Juszczec. > > He is working on a PIM for picogui and he posts occasionally about his > > progress. > > > > Good luck and let me know how it goes! > > > > Matt > > -- > > > > (*) http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/ > > > > On Wednesday 08 May 2002 10:17 am, you wrote: > > > Hyah > > > > > > I bought a helio sometime ago have started looking at it again with the > > > plans > > > of playing with linux. > > > > > > Have you found any severe limitations aside from the 2M flash limit? > > > Im thinking of writing a GUI app, just playing really, did anyone > > > ever role the patches for the helio into the mainline kernel? > > > > > > Sorry for so many questions. > > > Cheers > > > Angelo > > > > _______________________________________________________________ > > > > Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We > > supply > > the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > > Pgui-devel mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgui-devel > > _______________________________________________________________ > > Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply > the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > Pgui-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgui-devel _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Pgui-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgui-devel
