Development

On this page you will find useful information to develop software for your Armadeus board

Project

• Armadeus project sources organisation
• How to submit patches with your modifications
• Adding packages to Buildroot
• GIT usage on Armadeus and the way to inform us about your changes
• APF9328 and APF27 migration to Linux 2.6.36

Tools/Debug

• C/C++ Cross Compiler (Toolchain) installation
• Debugging with GDB and GDBserver
• Simulate an Armadeus system under QEMU
• Eclipse IDE with GDB debugger
• Support JTAGKey and BDI2000 JTAG probes

Bootloader / U-Boot

• Description of U-boot's patches
• Boot linux from a USB key
• Connection with U-Boot under Windows
• U-Boot communication quick check
• Uboot FPGA firmware update from Linux

Linux

• Kernel driver status list for the APF boards
• Tips to debug under Linux
• Instructions to develop Linux drivers for Armadeus
• Resources available on i.MXL Linux kernel development
• Interpreting Linux kernel Oops (crashes)

Userland

Tutorials / Tips How to create your first Linux C application for your board How to create your first Linux C++ application for your board Automatically launch your application	Libraries ARMadeus specific library
Graphical User Interface / Games Qt/Embedded Enlightenment Foundation Libraries SDL Allegro Mesa 3D graphics library (OpenGL compatible) pygame Entertainment	Scripts / Languages Java Perl Python Lua Flot : Javascript plotting library for jQuery
Realtime applications Xenomai	Web Boa (Embedded Webserver) Links: lightweight textual mode Web browser Flot : Javascript plotting library for jQuery
Network Ngircd : an IRC server tftpd : adding a tftpboot server on apf
Robotics/Domotic Robotic Domos Project
Third party non free Straton

Examples of projects

• Applications

Miscellaneous

• Hello World example in NEON

Links

• Things to know when porting x86 software to ARM: http://www.handhelds.org/minihowto/porting-software.html
• Some nice presentations on Linux Embedded