Hi Rupin, On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Rupin Chheda <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I have a device which is running WinCE currently,and i need to get Linux on > this device.It runs ARM 926EJ-S with 64 MB Ram..The device only has one USB > host and one USB Slave.. > The issue that I face is that I am not able to halt the bios on this > device,so that I could actually coax it to open a serial terminal so that I > could install from the USB stick.Is it the way we halt bioses on normal > machine by pressing the del key?
Check out HARET : http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/HaRET It will let you boot Linux from CE. Its more of a temporary solution to play around with it. I haven't used this myself but I've heard good things about it. Alternatively If you have access to the microsoft boot loader (called eboot) and a network connection (the way you normally upload CE images during dev) I have written a couple of python scripts that: 1) convert a standard linux zImage into something eboot can understand 2) upload to the device over the network (basically glorified TFTP) from linux. They're not online at the moment but I could make them available if anyone is interested. > Also,before I format and go to the next step,What kind of a GUI does > embdebain support on such a hardware configuration?.WinCE is running pretty > well on this, with the Touchscreen working well, so my guess is there would > be support for a native display manager... > You'll need two things: 1) A working kernel framebuffer driver for your hardware (you don't say what it is) Do you know the actual chip? (ARM 926EJ-S is just the CPU core). Usually such devices use a SoC containing an arm core and common peripherials (display controller, USB, ...) such as i.MX21, iMX27, PXA.. 2) Touchscreen support Once that's available emdebian has GPE (a stripped down gnome) : http://gpe.handhelds.org/ Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
