Re: Linux on Pilz o215 hardware

On Saturday 16 July 2011 10:13:15 Marek Vasut wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 12:33:33 PM Tom Watson wrote:
> > Back a few years ago, I posted a question on trying to get a Linux kernel
> > loaded on the Pilz o215 hardware.  I remember some replies, but was busy
> > and didn't get around to doing anything.  Fast forward to today, and I
> > dredged out the hardware and have renewed interest in trying to get this
> > operational.
> > 
> > It is a nice little box that works on 24 vdc (quite portable) with sound
> > and a couple of serial ports,  It even has a USB port for peripherals and
> > inbound.
> > 
> > I have a 5Gbyte PCMCIA card that would fit nicely to make this work, but
> > as I really don't know how this thing even boots up (it currently
> > displays a nice Pilz splash screen and goes onto [yuck] Windows CE).
> > 
> > If all it needed was a suitably formatted PCMCIA drive I would be most
> > happy (I can dream, can't I?).
> > 
> > According to WinCE (yuck again) it has 50 Meg bytes of ram memory.  I
> > don't know what the ratio to ARM to x86 code is but it should be enough
> > to get the job done.
> > 
> > Thanks for any pointers.  I promise to be more interested this time.
> 
> Well if it's strongarm, then grab linux sources, derive support for your
> platform and start adding stuff.
> 
> Anyway, you'll likely need some UART connection to connect to the
> bootloader and maybe ethernet for TFTP boot, who knows what does the thing
> run as a loader

You can try haret as (temporary) bootloader to boot linux from WinCE. With 
haret you can also discover what gpio pins WinCE uses for different purposes, 
etc...

Regards
Vasily