One of my possible customer asked if I can run mono on the Sarge SBC, so I’ve decided to bitbake one using the latest oe recipe. After creating mono-1.2.4 packages for sarge-at91 machine it turned out that not everything is working fine: root@sarge_at91:/usr/local/mono$ mcs example1.cs Unhandled Exception: System.TypeInitializationException: An exception was thrown by the type […]
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Running kernel 2.6.21 wasn’t just a matter of compiling newer release (previously I’ve used 2.6.17). The MMC core and AT91 driver was a bit rearranged since 2.6.17 and booting from the SD card wasn’t possible. Luckily I’ve found patches from ECB_AT91 project and after some changes it worked for Sarge. It can be downloaded from […]
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Our last efforts, the long hours spent deep underground in Black Mesa compound brought the Sarge SBC to the point where the sound becomes blue and radio-wave. … more
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Since the Sarge SBC is able to boot the linux kernel again We took another step and developed STE100P PHY kernel module – it’s working and the lights are blinking …
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Using DDD debugger with OpenOCD and JTAG interface I’ve found why the linux kernel was not booting. It was some missaligments caused by wrong gcc 4.1.1 compilation in CPU initlization routines located in u-boot and loader code – you should use gcc-3.4.6 (or less) for loader and u-boot if you want to avoid problems.
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Today our staff managed to boot linux kernel (2.6.17-14) on The Sarge SBC. After few days of hard work We have finally positive results – see more…
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