On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 19:23, morphius_at_symonds.net wrote:
> Hi
> Considering the size of the SDK after extraction, i was tempted to drop
> the project. It gobbled up my entire free disk space.
It is frightening, isn't it? But toolchains do tend to be large.
> Thankfully, I did get the executable built. I copied the bootblaster over
> and made a backup of wince_image.gz, asset_image.gz and saved_bootldr.gz. I also
> took a dump of the register set.
>
Excellent!
> The contents of
> asset_image.gz - "asset_image."
> saved_bootldr.gz - "saved_bootldr."
> wince_image.gz - "wince_image."
>
> Now proceeding to install Linux....
>
> I have a couple of questions
>
> 1) How do i figure out that the gz files created by the bootblaster 3900
> are corrupted or not?
Use gzip to unpack them? gzip may have a verification option.
> 2) I downloaded the latest copy of the bootldr source from the CVS
> repository. Where and what tools do i require to build?
The 2.95.2 toolchain at ftp://ftp.handhelds.org/pub/linux/arm/toolchain
(if I didn't get the url wrong). This installs in /skiff/local/bin. Or
the 3.0 cross toolchain from http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
Jamey
Received on Tue Sep 17 2002 - 10:57:27 EDT
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