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Title: compiling on the sl5500
Post by: bredroll on June 18, 2004, 05:58:48 am

Hi folks,

I\'m not new to linux, but my zaurus is due to arrive in the next few days (I cant wait)

I have got myself a sl5500 and also have a wifi card and some old 32mb sd and cf cards on the way aswell.

One of the things I got my zaurus for is to do some software development on a new network compression protocol that I can load as a module into the kernel.

I can probably cross compile a module just fine, but I have had a small amount of arm assembly experience at uni and thought it might be fun to produce an arm optimised version especially for us :-)

has anyone managed to squeeze the kernel headers, compiler and assembler into 16mb? (or 32mb but i\'d like to use my cf wif while doing this)

Thanks

Ian

Title: compiling on the sl5500
Post by: Mickeyl on June 18, 2004, 06:41:18 am

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I can probably cross compile a module just fine, but I have had a small amount of arm assembly experience at uni and thought it might be fun to produce an arm optimised version especially for us

Cross compiling won\'t hinder you to do that.

Title: compiling on the sl5500
Post by: bredroll on June 18, 2004, 06:50:10 am

Yep, I realise that :-), But i\'d like to be able to do it on the move, Also from working with arm assembly stuff before It gets pretty tedious doing assemble, upload, test. I would much prefer to compile on the actual machine, It\'s not likly to take too long to compile afaik.

Title: compiling on the sl5500
Post by: lardman on June 18, 2004, 07:27:42 am

There are some cramfs images floating about which contain toolchains which you can then mount.

Either take a look on killefiz.de or do a search here for \'cramfs\' and see what there is.


Si