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16 years ago

Update Microtronix to current Kernel

Hi,

I know about the disadvantages described here (http://www.nioswiki.com/operatingsystems/uclinux)

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# It is synced up to the latest Linux kernel release, which means improvements, bugfixes and more drivers supported. If you will develope drivers, it is important to keep up.[/b]

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but is there a solution to get the new kernel into the Microtronix release?

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    I don&#39;t see how this would make any sense, as there is no support whatsover for the Microtronix "release" any more.

    What are you trying to accomplish ?

    -Michael
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (mschnell @ Jul 30 2009, 04:21 AM) <{post_snapback}> (index.php?act=findpost&pid=23336)</div>

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    I don&#39;t see how this would make any sense, as there is no support whatsover for the Microtronix "release" any more.

    What are you trying to accomplish ?

    -Michael[/b]

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    I&#39;m trying to accomplish a simple way to work with uClinux in Windows. and the Microtronix Release runs there very good.

    I tried several ways, Colinux / Virtual Box is a Virtual Machine (i tried ... both worked but this solution isnt very comfortable :) ) and Cygwin failed in checkout and compiling.

    After browsing through the eclipse plugins i saw the Linux Kernel in a folder com.microtronix.nios2linux.kernel_1.4.0\linux-2.6.x so i thought an update there shouldn&#39;t be a big deal.
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Dschingis @ Jul 30 2009, 10:57 AM) <{post_snapback}> (index.php?act=findpost&pid=23338)</div>

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    I&#39;m trying to accomplish a simple way to work with uClinux in Windows. and the Microtronix Release runs there very good.[/b]

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    While I don&#39;t think this is worth the effort (as it&#39;s a real plus to have a PC Linux at hand while doing embedded Linux software: you can try out nearly everything on the PC _much_ faster than testing it on the device), I suppose the only viable way is to try to get the _current_ tool chain running in the environment you desire. This of course is possible using Cygwin.

    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Dschingis @ Jul 30 2009, 10:57 AM) <{post_snapback}> (index.php?act=findpost&pid=23338)</div>

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    Cygwin failed in checkout and compiling.[/b]

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    Of course you need to "port" the toolchain to Cygwin. I have no idea how to do that but you need to compile the gcc3 with the windows host gcc and link it against the Cygwin libraries.

    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Dschingis @ Jul 30 2009, 10:57 AM) <{post_snapback}> (index.php?act=findpost&pid=23338)</div>

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    ...i thought an update there shouldn&#39;t be a big deal.[/b]

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    Good luck :P

    -Michael