> >>Thought I would pass this one the the SLUG group. Friend of mine had a
> >>question...
> >>
> >>"I got the embedded development board today.
> >>http://www.arcom.com/pc104-ixp425-mercury.htm Starting to read over the
> >>docs. The board itself has Linux installed and ready to go, but in the
> >>end I will need to learn how to configure and build Linux images.
> >>Currently my next start is to start application development. The board
> >>comes with Fedora on three CDs and recomends installing it on a
> >>development PC, then updating the compiler for cross compiling to the
> >>x-scale processor. I would compile on the Linux PC, then upload the
> >>binary to the embedded platform. I was wondering if it would be a
> >>simpler process to upload gcc and the required libs to the embedded
> >>platform and compile and develope there? Of course I do not have the
> >>first idea how to do this. My first quess is that I would need a PC with
> >>a cross compiler to be able to cross compile the gcc compiler over to
> >>the xscale. sigh.... Anyway I have a steep learning curve. Any book
> >>refs. or links would be appreciated."
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >> Pete
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >This board doesn't appear to have the onbaord storage to actually upload
> >a development enviornment onto the board. You could set it up to boot a
> >NFS partition and have the development environment there, but it is
> >probably just as easy to install a cross compiler. The development kit
> >should have instructions for installing a cross compiler.
> >
> >Jason
> >
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> Follow up question... my friend is making some progress and was looking
> for some more advice. "I neck deep in getting this stuff working on
> Linux. BTW, I am attempting to use the "great and powerfull" emacs
> editor. I must be missing something, it's damn cumbersome. Any better
> ideas for editors for code development on Linux?"
>
> Any input would be appreciated.
>
>
An ever-ongoing debate, text editors on linux is. Any editor has a
learning curve. I'm most comfortable with vim, since it's what I
started with. Pico, Nano, or Joe are good options to begin with, but I
haven't seen them with the same advantages as vim or emacs. If you're
not confined to a shell, gvim or xemacs are good for simplifying and
demystifying vim's modes and the notorious emacs meta-keys. Like
anything, it also depends on what you're doing. For web-development,
Bluefish is without a doubt the way to go. Any updates on the embedded
progress would be cool, as well, I'm working on an embedded project of
my own and would appreciate any insight gained.
Tyler
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