Bill » Thursday, July 29 2010, 03:04
I've disabled comments because I'd like everyone to use the forum to ask questions. Plus this blog is getting spammed pretty hard and I'm tired of deleting the spam responses. So everyone, PLEASE post your comments in the forum and start contributing and help my community grow for the mini2440. I can't answer all the questions by myself. :)
Thanks, Bill
Bill » Wednesday, July 14 2010, 14:15
In today's tutorial, I will show you how to cross compile the linux kernel for the mini2440 using patched sources designed to work with the mini2440 hardware. Knowing how to compile your own kernel is a must for embedded programmers.
http://billforums.station51.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=20
If you have any questions, please ask in the forum.
Bill » Sunday, July 11 2010, 15:09
This tutorial falls in to my Linux 101 category for beginners. It shows simply how to create a blank image, format it, mount it, and copy files to it.
Please see the link to my forum below for access to this tutorial as well as many more regarding embedded programming.
Bill » Wednesday, June 16 2010, 22:09
Booting from and SD card and from NAND can really wear them out quickly especially if you're doing a lot of reading and writing while debugging a filesystem. So I offer this alternative for those of you who want to just play around with different filesystems, or who are working actively to debug a filesystem or who are rapidly developing and need to do a lot of writing and reading. Below you will find a link to my latest HOWTO in the forum showing you just how you can boot your Mini2440 from the network using an NFS Server and a few lines of code in your U-boot variables.
http://billforums.station51.net/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=17
Questions or comments can be left in the forum.
Thanks, Bill
Bill » Monday, June 14 2010, 00:37
I've baked a few root filesystems with openembedded. They are available for download at the link below. You must be registered on the forum to download them. Please let me know how they work for you. They're completely untested.
Bill » Sunday, June 13 2010, 13:45
If you're interested in compiling Qt 4.6 and tslib for the mini2440, please see the latest howto in the forum.
http://billforums.station51.net/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=15&p=44#p44
Thanks, and as usual, please post all feedback in the forum.
Bill » Sunday, June 13 2010, 02:35
If you're interested in learning to compile Android for the Mini2440, please see my forum for a quick dirty howto.
http://billforums.station51.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=13
Please leave all comments in that form thread.
Bill » Monday, June 7 2010, 23:05
Been getting errors mounting your filesystems located on SD cards? Keep reading...
Bill » Monday, May 31 2010, 13:45
I've set up a new forum to compliment this blog. It's getting too hard to follow people's comments here and reply to everyone. I've ported over all the howto's on the side to the forum, and the forum is open to anyone who wishes to post. Please register and leave comments there if you can.
http://billforums.station51.net
It's very basic and boring but it's just easier for us to have a threaded conversation using a forum than this blog. In the future, I might stop using the blog altogether and switch to the forum. But for now, I'll be posting in both places. PLease provide any feedback you can to its setup. I'm not very good at setting up a forum. ;)
Bill » Saturday, May 8 2010, 21:21
This howto will show you how to quickly and easily set up an ARM toolchain so that you can use openembedded. You can also use this toolchain to compile the linux kernel or anything else that you specifically want to compile for the mini2440.
Bill » Tuesday, April 27 2010, 13:25
Some people have asked for U-Boot Binaries.
This is the binary for U-Boot u-boot-bin.tbz2
And this is the source code used to create the above binary. u-boot-src.tbz2
The source is current as of the date on this post. But I recommend strongly that you use git and get your own fresh copy of the source and that you compile it yourself. I have gotten numerous requests for these links. So here you go.
The code here is completely unmodified by me. It's just a straightforward compile.
I'll try to update this blog entry with updated Binaries and source occasionally for those of you who won't or can't for some reason do any of the stuff for yourselves.
Bill » Friday, April 2 2010, 15:50
I recently tried the Android image from developmentboard.net ....
Bill » Wednesday, March 31 2010, 23:15
I was curious about how to go about getting the supplied USB cable that came with my Micro2440 to work in Linux. Here's how I did it...
Bill » Wednesday, February 17 2010, 21:17
As a "for laughs" experiment, I've been compiling gentoo's Gnome Light ebuild.
Bill » Thursday, February 4 2010, 14:27
I've been working on getting Gentoo running on my Micro2440 for the past couple of days. I thought I'd share with you how I got it running.
Bill » Tuesday, February 2 2010, 14:03
After posting my HOWTO on SD cards, I've ran in to some trouble...
Bill » Saturday, January 30 2010, 00:34
Many many people want to know how to boot their Mini2440 or Micro2440 off of an SD card and I'm going to show you how.
Bill » Tuesday, January 26 2010, 14:50
This not so small tutorial is designed to give you a starting point for building root filesystems for your Micro2440 and Mini2440 boards using the OpenEmbedded development "kit". I've discussed this some in previous entries on the blog, but I think it's time I show you how to do it for yourself.
Bill » Wednesday, January 20 2010, 14:48
After what seems like forever, trying to resolve a problem getting consistently working images and kernels, I've finally figured out the problem.
Bill » Sunday, January 17 2010, 17:35
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