Re: [ts-7000] Re: beginner in arm boards

[Joel Morgan <>]

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Jim Jackson <> wrote:

 

On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Blair wrote:

> You need a bunch of things before you can begin working. You need a
> cross toolchain. Sounds simple and should be something you "just
> install". Nope. You first need to decide what desktop environment you
> want to work in: Windows, Mac OSX, or Linux. Each has its pros and cons.
> I've used OSX fairly well but only because some generous soul posted
> procedures for building a toolchain. But even building a toolchain is a
> challenge because the make system for it requires a bunch of utilities
> that may or may not be present on your system. And even if you have
> these, the versions of the utilities may not be recent enough and you
> wind up with errors during building. And every part of the toolchain
> itself has numerous versions. Not much in the way of documentation on
> what versions to use.

That's odd, because I just downloaded the pre-compiled tool chain from TS
onto my Linux box and I could compile hello world for my board, and start
my software development.

I agree. Using tools and the on-board kernel from TS was quite simple for me,
and I dont have advanced degrees in engineering.


-- 
Joel R. Morgan
Morgan Millwright Services, Inc.

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