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Rockbox Player - Project to design and build a Free/Open hardware audio player
casainho:
friendlyzookeeper, you are writing things that are not important for this project! Can you please create another post to discuss that things and write here just about the hardware and software for the RockboxPlayer??
http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/RockboxPlayer
arm-linux-gcc or arm-elf?
I did build u-boot and the example code "hello world" in u-boots source and I had to install the arm-linux-gcc, the arm-elf didn't build the example, It must be the arm-linux-gcc. I would like to know If to build rockbox firmware I must use arm-elf or If arm-linux-gcc is ok? Any suggestions, guidance? - I did read the CrossCompiler TWiki page of rockbox. Thank you.
casainho:
--- Quote from: friendlyzookeeper on April 13, 2008, 04:54:10 AM ---Casainho, I really don't know what your asking? Did you create "hello world" and still hooked up to your computer? The example hello world is just an application. The CD that you received with your board has a pre- built Linux version to port to memory of your board. The instructions on how to port it will be on the cd. You do have a choice on which version os. There will be 3 versions of linux and a windows ce. The windows ce is just an evaluation os. There are a few firmware ports also, Busybox is a very good one.
I hope that I helped, somewhat?
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The "hello world" example is in the sources of the u-boot bootloader, not in the sources of the Linux that comes with the board. Also I see in the documentation of u-boot that "hello world" example.
I don't care about Linux that comes with the dev. board because we will not use Linux nor any other OS. But It's important to have Linux sources and bins for the board because when writing drivers for Rockbox firmware we can reuse the code :-)
I tried to build the u-boot with arm-elf installed on my system by the rockboxdev.sh install script but the build fails right on the "hello world" source and I had to build using arm-linux-gcc...
casainho:
--- Quote from: friendlyzookeeper on April 13, 2008, 06:26:52 AM ---Are you going to use the linux kernel for the drivers?
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I don't know yet. I will use what I will need to use and It's good to have u-boot and linux sources for the hardware that I am working, because they use the same license as Rockbox firmware :-)
casainho:
--- Quote from: friendlyzookeeper on April 13, 2008, 09:04:22 AM ---So, your going to load scripts and commands?
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Since what I know, I will load bin files on u-boot.
Llorean:
friendlyzookeeper: I must repeat in the strongest terms that you should stop and look at what Rockbox is. It really sounds like you're trying to offer advice here without having much knowledge as to the actual goal, or the software he wants to get running on the device.
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