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RE: IR Tower and Hyperthreading
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Date: 
Thu, 8 Jan 2004 14:59:05 GMT
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Rob Limbaugh <rlimbaugh@greenfieldgroup.com+NoMoreSpam+>
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BTW: I'm a Linux guy and I'd prefer to work with it on my • favorite platform.
Is there a place I can get tools to do it (compilers, • drivers for the
IR interface or whatever else is needed)?

Jean
It's fairly straightforward to get your development
environment setup on Linux.
The homepage for the brickos project has documentation but
only for debian systems.  I use debian but I prefer to use
the cvs version rather than the somewhat out of date
binaries.  The documentation for setting up your environment
for other flavors of Linux is scattered but I found the
following webpage to have the most helpful information:
http://www.cs.utah.edu/~zxshen/BrickOS-Cyclone/INSTALL.html

The driver for the usb tower, http://legousb.sourceforge.net,
was recently submitted to be added to the kernel tree of
2.6.1 http://lwn.net/Articles/64778/.

I use a patched 2.4.23 kernel.

It should be illegal to use "Linux" and "straight forward" in the same
sentence.  Notice, everything after that line uses words like
"scattered", "most helpful", "other flavors", "to be added to the kernel
[in upcoming release]", and "patched <version> kernel".



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(...) It depends: I would not consider it "illegal" :-) :-) :-) I'm a developer myself and love to work in this kind of environment - when one has control over things and understands exactly what is happening. (as opposed to, say, the Windows (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)

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