From: David McCullough (davidm@snapgear.com)
Date: Thu Aug 22 2002 - 20:05:02 EDT
Jivin Matthias Schoeldgen lays it down ... > Hello List! > > This will always be a problem with fast-paced developments like the > Linux/uClinux projects. You simply cannot expect to compile a complex > system like the whole distribution under every cicumstance in any case > without problems. I think the snapgear and arcturus guys are fully > occupied with kernel issues and updating them constantly and include the > vast number of architectures , boards and peripherals . There will > simply be no time to integrate, test and include new or improved user > programs as well. This is a task where we (the application programmers) > are to step in and submit our experiences and improvements. > There is only one problem: Most of us only have experiences on a single > architecture (who has a dozen development systems lying around :-)), so > sometimes a program will run on one system and not on another. > A typical error was e.g. to include the 16550 serial pc drivers on a > uCsimm system (stupid me!). > > My suggestion is to fill http://www.ucdot.org with known successes and > known problems to give newbies a good starting point with their > architecture and board and some hints on porting applications and > bringing uClinux to new platforms/processors. Anything along these lines will fit right into the uCdot FAQ. Even something as simple as an error message and what causes it makes a good FAQ. Likewise, if anyone has any sites or links they would like to see added just send them in. > Poll: What is the cheapest system running uClinux with ethernet and > serial ? Why not, a new poll is born :-) Cheers, Davidm -- David McCullough: Ph: +61 7 3435 2815 http://www.SnapGear.com davidm@snapgear.com Fx: +61 7 3891 3630 Custom Embedded Solutions + Security This message resent by the uclinux-dev@uclinux.org list server http://www.uClinux.org/
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