Hi Dave,
I'm not much of a Linux expert myself... thankfully some on this
group are!
Some of the confusion you are experiencing is due to the
documentation being written for or adapted from the 72xx series which
have on board Flash. The TS-7300, although it has the capability on
the PCB, does not have any flash/eeprom other than that needed to
boot the board off the SD card. All the OS configuration is done on
the SD card closest to the CPU (left side looking at the connectors).
It is possible to develop on the unit itself, but I wouldn't
recommend it as it is much slower to compile than a PC. If you write
code like me - edit, compile, correct code syntax, compile, correct
more syntax, compile, etc then the slow compile becomes painful. I
would recommend setting up a development system on a Linux or Windows
PC. I use cygwin on a Dell laptop under XP.
If you plug in a USB keyboard you can use the nano editor which is
built in to the base distribution. I assume you can add other editors
via debian, but I feel offloading development is the best bet.
There is very limited documentation of the Video, what are you hoping
to do. I use the screen via direct access to the video buffers as
this gave me more control, but others have used GUI and windowing
systems such as Nano-X. The TS-7300 basically implements the Linux
framebuffer driver with a few hardware bitblt optimizations. Google
linux framebuffer for more information.
I found that once I managed to do some basic screen accesses and
created functions for the basic primatives I could write code to
implement all the screen functions very easily and the resulting
system is very responsive.
Regards,
PJE
--- In "dsdenu" <> wrote:
>
> I'll confess right off the bat that I'm new to Linux ... (<whew>
good
> to get that off my chest)
>
> I am having some difficulty in getting traction with Linux on the
> TS-7300. Here are a few (probably simple questions):
> - does the 7300 have on-board flash that needs configuration etc ?
> - one of the documents provided describes developing code directly
on
> the target, sounds ok, but is this viable ? How about an decent
> (simple) text based editor ?
> - Is there documentation on the video for the 7300 some where ?
>
> Thanks ...
>
> Dave
>
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