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Re: Improving the firmware?
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lugnet.robotics.nxt
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Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:48:00 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics.nxt, Jason J Railton wrote:
> In lugnet.robotics.nxt, Tony Naggs wrote:
> > In article <JBFwGp.30p@lugnet.com>, Guy Ziv <guy@nxtasy.org> writes
> > > After the release of the source code for NXT firmware version 1.04, I was
> > > wondering if anyone is considering to open a community project to create an
> > > improved firmware.
> >
> > I would like to be able to rebuild the firmware & experiment with it
> > before I get too ambitious.
> >
> > Has anybody fixed up the code to build with the gcc tools and made it
> > available? It seems pointless everyone having to do this for
> > themselves.
> >
> > It all seems rather difficult to follow, though I have only skimmed
> > through a few of the source files so far.
> >
> >
> > ttfn,
> > Tony
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> I second this. I know there are several people working on revised firmware,
> though I suspect they all started quite a while ago through the developer
> programme.
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> I've got experience of developing for embedded systems and can make some sense
> of the source code. But as for knocking together a development environment
> (full build, download, test) - not a thing.
And I "third" this motion. I've started going through the "fun" process of
building GCC for NXT, but don't have enough gigabytes of free space on my LEGO
dev machine (under CygWin) to get all the way through the process. Although I
don't think this is too difficult for anyone who has the chops to start hacking
firmware, I also don't see the value in making everybody spend the hours
figuring this out for themselves before they can join the Firmware Hackers Club.
If anyone has successfully built GCC/NXT for a Win32 machine, could they please
share their binaries with the group? (I'll gladly offer hosting space for these
files if that would help.) I will do this myself if/when I get a successful
build together, but I'm multitasking a lot of other projects at the moment, so
it could be awhile. I think the pace of firmware customizations would pick up
greatly if more people had easy access to a working toolchain.
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