[ale] any ALE members familiar with embedded linux?

[Dow Hurst]

To cut your development time, would Open Zaurus, Opie, Qt-embedded help 
you out?  I have a Sharp Zaurus and the environment it has that I am 
learning about is very tiny on the ARM architecture.  Let's say you had 
a Zaurus and used the serial port and a wireless CF card for input 
output.  You could go a long way on building on top of the build 
environment already in place for Open Zaurus.  They use BitKeeper to 
hold the code right now.  A few hardworked developers but they are 
moving the whole environment to some unified embedded environment that 
will make coding easier.  I think it is called Open Embedded or 
something like that.  Chris Larson is the main man and has just gotten 
resettled in a new location working for TI who supports his coding.  So 
OZ will probably speed up this winter.  They need coders and app 
builders right now.

Inside the Sharp ROM is a million links so the file system looks normal 
on the surface but you mostly find links.  I haven't taken much time to 
explore since I was using the tiny keyboard to navigate, but now with 
the Pocketop keyboard, I'll be able to move around more efficiently.  If 
you'd like to meet for lunch or come by and take a look at the file 
system and operation feel free.  It is a SL5600 and is really cool.
Dow


Christopher Bergeron wrote:

> If so, can I ask you a few questions about embedded linux systems and
> how they differ from a normal linux kernel?
>
> Specifically, I'm wondering about BlueCat and Embedix.... do they just
> offer packages that let you trim stuff out of the kernel, or is there
> more to embedded linux in general that I'm missing?  I don't necessarily
> need real-time OS, but I'm moving into the embedded realm.
>
> Are there any embedded-linux specific mailing lists of note that I
> should join?
>
> Thanks for any insights...
> -CB
>
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