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Re: [porting] Arcom (xScale) Viper card support?
Gary means that if they ship Redboot with their product, the GPL obliges
them to provide you at least with a patch against the public
ecos/redboot sources that contains the modifications that were necessary
to get it running on that particular board. Just ask them!
Bob
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 20:57, John Wasinger wrote:
> Gary Thomas wrote:
>
> >John Wasinger wrote:
> >
> >>Gary Thomas wrote:
> >>
> >>>John Wasinger wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>Greetings,
> >>>>
> >>>>I recently acquired a development kit pre-loaded with RedBoot and Linux from Arcom.
> >>>>
> >>>>Has anyone ever looked into porting eCos to this platform?
> >>>>
> >>>If it already has Linux & RedBoot, it's probably simple to get
> >>>eCos running as well.
> >>>
> >>>What's the processor? Do you have a URL for the product?
> >>>
> >>Its running a PXA255 xScale processor.
> >>
> >>http://www.arcom.com/products/icp/dev_kits/default2.htm (we purchased
> >>the Embedded Linux kit)
> >>
> >>I recently e-mailed their support line requesting for the following files:
> >>redboot_RAM_ALTMAP.ecm
> >>redboot_ROM_ALTMAP.ecm
> >>redboot_RAM.ecm
> >>redboot_ROM.ecm
> >>
> >>Is this a good way to start? Are there any other configuration type
> >>files that are used when building RedBoot?
> >>
> >Actually, because of the GPL they should be willing to give you the
> >entire tree for their port (which will be many more files than this).
> >
> They Shipped the cross compiler tools and the RedHat Linux 7.3 disks.
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