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Simon Wood
Hardware Engineer
Pace Micro Technology plc
Victoria Road, Saltaire, Shipley
West Yorkshire, BD18 3LF
Tel : +44(0)1274 532000 Fax: +44(0)1274 532029
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u got?
I'm assuming that you're using patched gcc/binutils, am I right?
Simon Wood
Hardware Engineer
Pace Micro Technology plc
Victoria Road, Saltaire, Shipley
West Yorkshire, BD18 3LF
Tel : +44(0)1274 532000 Fax: +44(0)1274 532029
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I've already written a basic 'install' procedure for the Psion which is on
my web site. This covers how to program a SSD (given the image) and how to
install the Kernel.
I don't feel I know enough about the PC stuff, but am happy to contribute
more on the Psion specifi
found it.. thanks to a local Guru.
when doing mkfs.minix I wasn't specify an inode count, it was guess
according to the size of the disk. This droped from 120 inodes (at 360K) to
42 (at 128K).
adding the '-i 180' parameter solved the problem.
Simon Wood
hat's happening and how to solve it??
Simon Wood
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hard coding over the break.
Others:- If anyone has a series 3 (a, c, mx or siena - I want this to run on
a seina) and want to hammer it over Christmas please email me at home
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and I'll try to explain what I've done with
the code
Simon Wood
Hardware Engineer
Pac
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Simon Wood
Hardware Engineer
Pace Micro Technology plc
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West Yorkshire, BD18 3LF
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The psion specific tools have been updated a bit.
Simon Wood
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o the expanding bit? Are the tools out there already? Or do I
have to code it myself?
Preferably I would like the hex dump to be in the form below, but I am
flexible on that..
00a500:a9f20854c...90
00a510:2c51234..ff
Simon Wood
Hardware Engineer
Pace Micro Technology plc
Victoria Road, Saltaire, Sh
Where is this (/bin/init) supposed to appear
from?
Simon Wood
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It would blindly load memory as
instructed and then jump to the start of kernel code.
I'm open to suggestion, directly or to the list.
Simon Wood
Hardware Engineer
Pace Micro Technology plc
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West Yorkshire, BD18 3LF
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Th
development on various platforms that don't have a vga/svga plug in card.
Presumably all our frame buffer would need to do is simple text (console 8*8
??) and dots & lines (micro-windows).
Does any one else have any thoughts along these lines?
Simon Wood
Hardware Engineer
Pace Micro
in
trying it.
Personally I would like to see ELKS branch out over many processors (just
like it's big brother), and hopefully conquer the 16bit world.
Simon Wood
Hardware Engineer
Pace Micro Technology plc
Victoria Road, Saltaire, Shipley
West Yorkshire, BD18 3LF
Tel : +44(0)1274 532000
and fold
it back into the ELKS tree.
Simon Wood
PS. I don't own a Pilot - I'm just letting my mind wander from what it
should be doing
, I think it particularly
important to note that ELKS is 16bit and does not require nearly as much
processing power/memory as the full Linux kernel.
Simon Wood
Hardware Engineer
Pace Micro Technology plc
Victoria Road, Saltaire, Shipley
West Yorkshire, BD18 3LF
Tel : +44(0)1274 532000 Fax: +44(0
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Firstly is Swapping a 'Must Have'?
For an embedded system without read/writable mass storage it serves no
purpose.
I hope that it is an option extra
> Swapping under ELKS is going to have to have a fundamentally different
> approach from Linux. Linux runs on a protected mode architectur
enough to post the further changes that I have at
home later in the week.
Simon Wood
> -Original Message-
> From: Gaute Hvoslef Kvalnes [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 10:40 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: ELKS on Psion?
>
> I
I posted this earlier this morning but it hasn't appeared - so I'm trying
again.
Well I had another play last night and didn't find the solution as to why
init isn't completing the login sequence.
The last message is 'Loading Init' and then it gets stuck in a loop
Here's the system call log,
Well I had another play last night and didn't find the solution as to why
init isn't completing the login sequence.
The last message is 'Loading Init' and then it gets stuck in a loop
Here's the system call log, can anyone see the problem?
( is a comment by me.)
Irq(0) Requested
Set up
login' code has a
compile option for utmp (which I've left in by mistake) but bombs out big
time(i.e. no login) if the utent.c stuff returns NULL - which it does if the
file doesn't exist. I'll try recompiling it. (it just that
re-programming the Flash SSD takes so long :-( ).
Simon Wood
, remember I'm working with a 128K disk for the time being) it would
help my understanding of the system as a whole.
Also 'strace' outputs a lot of numbers and text - the text at least make
sense but what about the numbers?
I'll post an up-to-date copy on my website tomorro
Nice summary, but
Simon Wood
> -Original Message-
> From: Alan Cox [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, August 13, 1999 5:51 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: cheep linux machines
>
> Running ELKS - so unfin
start up...
The other option, of course, is our competitors over in the uClinux team -
but I think the dragonball might be too expensive.
What would the requirement for the processor/screen/memory be for this
project ???
Simon Wood
> -Original Message-
> From: David Murn [SMTP:
See below
Simon Wood
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Explorer, Microsoft
Management Console, network configuration utilities, Windows help engine,
task scheduling, and others.
Simon Wood
ps. What's a 'major' Win32 API?
, DUH).
I've posted some more pretty pictures on
http://www.mungewell.ndirect.co.uk/linux/index.htm
Simon Wood
function for when it's not Configured in.
any others are just there in order to suss out what is happening and aren't
really needed.
I also had dificultly passing Config Defines to my '.S' pre-processor, any good
ideas there?
Have fun,
Simon Wood.
At present it gets as far as mounting the 'hard disk' and loading 'init' and
then it falls over in a big heap. I suspect the kernel stack is a little
screwed as this version has the psion 'stack/data/bss/heap' sequence.
Have fun,
Simon Wood
:-(
I get the feeling that the config options are not completely independent,
anyone else had this problem?
Simon Wood
Hi all,
I've been reading up about how to use a CVS server... I think I ought to
have a go at the practical side of things.
Is the Elks CVS server functioning and if so where is it?
Simon Wood
Hardware Engineer
Pace Micro Technology plc
Victoria Road, Saltaire, Shipley
West Yorkshire,
Hello Radek Hnilica,
(if you'd said were you're from I would have attempted to say hi in your
native language..)
You have some interesting ideas, I would like to comment on a few please see
below...
Simon Wood
Hardware Engineer
Pace Micro Technology plc
Victoria Road, Saltaire, Sh
ld be cooking with gas.
I am presuming the Romfs is the best to use as it will be impossible to
alter the FAT (or superblock) after it is written.
Simon Wood
Hardware Engineer
Pace Micro Technology plc
Victoria Road, Saltaire, Shipley
West Yorkshire, BD18 3LF
Tel : +44(0)1274 532000 Fax: +44(0
see below...
PS (Pre-script) does anyone know how to get MS outlook to append your reply
to the END of the quoted message, rather than put it at the beginning?
Simon Wood
Hardware Engineer
Pace Micro Technology plc
Victoria Road, Saltaire, Shipley
West Yorkshire, BD18 3LF
Tel : +44(0)1274
ssed mapped, to get at it you need to set the
address and then read/write the byte of data.
What is the best way to approach implementing a driver?
Looking at block drivers a few seem to use a generic block read/write these
seem to play with buffers, but that's as far as I got.
Any help wo
Hi all,
I'm pressing on with the Psion port of ELKS and need some input into how to
use the available memory.
The included file details the Psion memory structure and has some sketchy
suggestions for it's use.
<>
Yours,
Simon Wood
Hardware Engineer
Pace Micro Technology p
> >
> > > In addition, the user programs could be protected from the kernel
> and vice
> > > versa...
>
> Note, without memory protection we really have no lower priviledged users,
> all users
> are the equivelent of root. Users exist merely to provide some logical
> division.
[]
Not 100% t
My wife is currently addicted to Sokoban, how as ASCII version of that.
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learn).
It should be difficult to do either (or both)...
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> The ROMfs code that has already been ported to ELKS is very good for this
> sort of thing, and I have set up the filesystem code so that a compiletime
> option can be specified to remove all the filesystem code related to
> writing to actual filesystems. This would allow a very small kernel to
> The advent of nano-X and graphics under ELKS, together with this discusion
> has set me thinking more seriously about ROMing ELKS.
>
> In the bath last night (as always) I thought about how I could modify ELKS
> so it would run without a filesystem, and came up with a way of storing
> binary im
ol them. This might make memory mapping awkward.
I have posted more information (plus example code) on my website:
http://www.mungewell.ndirect.co.uk
Simon Wood
Hardware Engineer
Pace Micro Technology plc
Victoria Road, Saltaire, Shipley
West Yorkshire, BD18 3LF
Tel : +44(0)1274 532000 Fax: +44
ere does that fit
in with the rest. Does the project have a 'Mission Statement' if you excuse
the Dilbert Speak.
Simon Wood
Hardware Engineer
Pace Micro Technology plc
Victoria Road, Saltaire, Shipley
West Yorkshire, BD18 3LF
Tel : +44(0)1274 532000 Fax: +44(0)1274 532029
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emory system without
all those BIOS calls.
I am currently investigating driving the 3a's hardware directly and would
like to pool any effort 'we' can muster. Current progress isn't much but
it's a start, see http://www.mungewell.ndirect.co.uk/psion/beyond.htm
Simon Wood
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