Re: build a hack box of choice?

Hi

Brian Wilson wrote:
>>about the subject, ppl from east asia usually asks the eyes
>>on your face for linux developing kits/boards/CDs/manuals
> 
> I didn't get this at first. Here we'd say "they charge an arm and a leg".

sorry, english isn't my primary language. I was in doubt on
the expression anyway (not counting that "an eye" is problably
cheaper than "an arm and a leg" ;-))

> When I opened the 3 ring binder I found... a gcc
> manual!! Hey! They justified the cost by making it easy to install.
> Since then I have built GNU toolchains and thing it was probably a
> fair price. It can be nasty!

just to learn how to build a cross compile environment,
there is "Building Embedded Linux System" from O'reilly
(I buyed thinking it was more technical or, perhaps,
more on linux kernel side but the goal of the book is
on the building environment, most of the time)

I found some docs on uclinux site but most of them
require a kernel background that I don't have (not
as a developer, I mean -- I'm more like an heavy user)

> Having worked in shops producing products based on embedded systems I
> think one of the biggest issues is they don't want to spend the money
> to produce decent docs. None of the places I ever worked ever had much
> of any internal docs beyond the initial spec and design stages. Once
> things were in production, I had to go and beg for help. Last place I
> was at, I was the build/release engineer! I had to sit at the feet of
> the engineers with my notepad to capture the knowledge and write it up
> for posterity.

I can imagine :^)

Cheers
!3runo

> Our final project before we ran out of funding was a Linux based
> product. :-( ARM 7 based.  I am still frustrated and sad.  Everything
> we'd done up to that point was based on proprietary kernels.