Peter;
Thanks for the solid info. The more I learn about Linux the more I
like. I spent a lot of time looking for an flexible, scalable
embedded platform and it looks like I made the right choice.
Some quick Googling for framebuffer info as you suggested was informative.
Would love to get a small GUI up on the 7300 to play with. However I
think my initial efforts will be text based.
Still working on getting a development environment setup on a Linux
box. Any one have a favorite way to transfer executables to the 7300
target ?
Thanks
Dave
--- In "PeterElliot" <> wrote:
>
> 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" <dave@> 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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