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Just my two cents (to the total discussion of TS and support and not really specific to any particular comments).... This does seem like a fairly legitimate response (and at the very least it IS a response and not technically "ignoring" the question... still I feel your pain). Although I have had some frustration with the boards (and documentation) from time to time I guess I understand the response and their position that they cannot support every issue of a nearly limitless supply. I originally looked into their boards because of how they worded their support of rtai (a real time interface). Well... they didn't exactly "support" it rather than have it available... but in the end it did work and I had success with it. But you need to put things in perspective. For instance when I started working with rtai there was another option -- RTLinux. rtai is in itself a lot like some of the stuff provided by TS. It's there and you can use it... and it may work for you and it may not. I could have payed RTLinux $5000 for a development seat but I choose to go where I did. So we can pay more (or even pay TS) or we can benefit from the lower cost and the satisfaction of joining the open source community and understanding we need to be smarter than the average bear (or at least with the hope that one of the smarter bears answers a post). I will say that this group has been invaluable to me... it has given me insight into many things. Things not always related to the TS line itself. But it does focus on the embedded side of life very well. wrote on 04/14/2009 09:17:47 AM: > "alanbarton69" <> > Subject > [ts-7000] Re: EmbeddedARM support?? > > I recently asked TS Tech support: > I am cross compiling from both a WinXP and Linux Development PCs > to a TS-7250 board running TS-Linux. How do I cross-compile programs > that use Qt screens. (On the WinPC, Qt Makefile uses compilers from > the MinGW instead of the installed CYGWIN gcc-3.3.4-glibc-2.3.2 crosstools) > > Reply from TS: > >> I can't give you too much advice because this is really a software > >> question that wouldn't be covered by our free tech support, and > >> anyhow I have not used Qt so I wouldn't be a useful authority. > However we > are a hardware company and free support is for hardware, or for software > that we wrote or modified that is specific to our boards. I realize > that we often appear to set a precedent by providing help that is > outside these boundaries. That typically happens because we happen to > know the answer to a question, and it seems better to just answer it > rather than tell people to "go read man pages." But when the amount of > research I would have to do to solve an issue is the same order of > magnitude as what you would have to do, and the issue is not specific to > our products, then I am not permitted to use the company's time on it. > We provide a QtEmbedded tarball. I have not used it personally but I > understand that once you have a cross-development environment set up on > your PC, adding the Qt library to it is not difficult. > >> I would recommend asking on the ts-7000 Yahoo group. > >> > >> Sincerely, > >> Grant __._,_.___
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