Re: Prex port to ATMEL AT91x40

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Andrew Lazarenko<cyberbobr <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi! I found my Prex port to ATMEL AT91x40 series microcontrollers. I sent it
> to Kohsuke Ohtani about 6 months ago. I don't tested and compiled this port
> with new Prex git repository version yet. I only tested with original Prex
> version 0.8.1. This port for my custom board, but my board is very similar
> to ATMEL EB40 evaluation board.

[snip]

Hi Andrew,

I have added your port to git and merged it with my current master branch. See:

http://github.com/AndrewD/prex/tree/master

You port compiles after the merge but I have no way of doing further
testing so can you please test this at some stage?

Thanks,

Andrew

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TODO -List?

hey, 
I'm new to such big projects. I want to dive into prex, but dont
know what should to be done next (and whwether Im skilled enough for it
;) ) 
So do exist a TODO list or something like that? Or any tips what would
be best to start prex-development?

Greetz 

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Re: TODO -List?

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:04 PM, xaxes <xaxes.list <at> foonative.org> wrote:
> hey,
> I'm new to such big projects. I want to dive into prex, but dont
> know what should to be done next (and whwether Im skilled enough for it
> ;) )
> So do exist a TODO list or something like that? Or any tips what would
> be best to start prex-development?

Usual approach is to scratch your own itch - do something that
interests you. Do you have something you would like to look at?

One suggestion would be a block driver layer. I've been considering a
middle layer that can read partition information and create additional
devices that expose the partitions so thinks like the fat filesystem
"just work" on SD cards, hard disks, etc. The hardware block driver
would register a device with this layer, much like my recent changes
to the tty layer. This layer would then create the actual devices.
This is a fairly small piece of work that doesn't involve low level
hardware details and is also nicely contained as a single driver.

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Re: BeagleBoard port is working

hey folks,
I have problems compiling the beagle-port. =\
Here the paste: 

http://paste.frubar.net/11127

Andrew Dennison <andrewd.lists <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> I have just committed a few fixed to git and the BeagleBoard port now
> runs. As always the source is available here:
> 
> http://github.com/AndrewD/prex/tree/master
> 
> Thanks to Richard Pandion for the port and both Richard and Yocto for
> remote debugging a few bugs in the merge.
> 
> Andrew
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Re: BeagleBoard port is working

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:27 AM, xaxes <xaxes.list <at> foonative.org> wrote:
> hey folks,
> I have problems compiling the beagle-port. =\
> Here the paste:
>
> http://paste.frubar.net/11127

I get the same error with a standard arm-elf- gcc build. I need to
comment out the CFLAGS makeoptions that Richard specified in
conf/arm/config.beagle for it to build:

#makeoptions     CFLAGS+= -mcpu=cortex-a8 -mfpu=neon
-mfloat-abi=softfp -fno-stack-protector

I think this is due to a standard gcc build not having multilibs built
with -mfpu=neon. I believe Richard is using the CodeSourcery arm
toolchain from 2007 to run on BeagleBoard and it appears that that
toolchain has a wide variety of multilibs included.

It would be good if someone could sort out what was required to build
a suitable gcc toolchain, or if the above line is unnecessary - I can
build the code with the change but don't have a BeagleBoard to test
with.

Note that the Prex arm port doesn't actually use floating point so the
kernel and libs _should_ be able to be build with the default floating
point flags (or softfloat) and it should still boot.

Andrew

Re: BeagleBoard port is working

hey andrew, thanks for the fast reply,

I tried commenting this line before, and it also didnt work.

Im getting a error with little changes:

http://paste.frubar.net/11133

Andrew Dennison <andrewd.lists <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:27 AM, xaxes <xaxes.list <at> foonative.org> wrote:
> > hey folks,
> > I have problems compiling the beagle-port. =\
> > Here the paste:
> >
> > http://paste.frubar.net/11127
> 
> I get the same error with a standard arm-elf- gcc build. I need to
> comment out the CFLAGS makeoptions that Richard specified in
> conf/arm/config.beagle for it to build:
> 
> #makeoptions     CFLAGS+= -mcpu=cortex-a8 -mfpu=neon
> -mfloat-abi=softfp -fno-stack-protector
> 
> I think this is due to a standard gcc build not having multilibs built
> with -mfpu=neon. I believe Richard is using the CodeSourcery arm
> toolchain from 2007 to run on BeagleBoard and it appears that that
> toolchain has a wide variety of multilibs included.
> 
> It would be good if someone could sort out what was required to build
> a suitable gcc toolchain, or if the above line is unnecessary - I can

Re: BeagleBoard port is working

Hey, 
got the error skipped.
keep the makeoptions (makeoptions     CFLAGS+= -mcpu=cortex-a8 -mfpu=neon
-mfloat-abi=softfp -fno-stack-protector)
but modify the ASFLAGS in mk/Makefile.inc to:

ASFLAGS+=	-W -mcpu=cortex-a8 -mfpu=neon -mfloat-abi=softfp

This avoid some crap default values.

Will push it to git later.

Greets Phil

Andrew Dennison <andrewd.lists <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:27 AM, xaxes <xaxes.list <at> foonative.org> wrote:
> > hey folks,
> > I have problems compiling the beagle-port. =\
> > Here the paste:
> >
> > http://paste.frubar.net/11127
> 
> I get the same error with a standard arm-elf- gcc build. I need to
> comment out the CFLAGS makeoptions that Richard specified in
> conf/arm/config.beagle for it to build:
> 
> #makeoptions     CFLAGS+= -mcpu=cortex-a8 -mfpu=neon
> -mfloat-abi=softfp -fno-stack-protector
> 
> I think this is due to a standard gcc build not having multilibs built

Re: Re : Re: BeagleBoard port is working

Hey Richard,
Thank you for the tip adding the makeoptions instead of modifying
mk/Makefile.inc.
Hopefully Iam able to push the changes to git today.

I havnt a beagleboard till now, I guess Ill get one from my uni in next
semester. 
Gonna try it to run in qemu/bochs later ;)

Richard PANDION <rpandion <at> gmx.com> wrote:
> 

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Re: Prex git tree available

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 12:57 AM, xaxes <xaxes.list <at> foonative.org> wrote:
> Hey Andrew,
> Got a question about pushing stuff to git-repo,
> I think I need some type of username and password.

Yes :)

At the moment I'm the only one with commit access to the public git
tree. The general model is that you can make your changes available in
some way and I can them merge them in. There are several ways we can
manage this:

1) email patches, either to the mailing list or me directly. You can
generate the patches in git ready for email - complete with your
commit history.
2) you can setup your own public tree and let me know where is it so I
can pull in changes
3) I can grant commit access to the tree I am maintaining so people
can push there directly

While the traffic is still very low it is easy to just email patches
around, but I'm happy to discuss other options.

Andrew

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Subject: building prex.img from Windows

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