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Subject: 
Re: IR Tower and Hyperthreading
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Fri, 9 Jan 2004 01:51:49 GMT
Original-From: 
Jean-Henry Berevoescu <berevoescu@sbcglobalAVOIDSPAM.net>
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Rob Limbaugh wrote:



<SNIP>



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the cvs version rather than the somewhat out of date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".



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 environment where all is foggy. I mean,
look at the problem with the USB version of the IR Tower - it took a lot
of trials in all the possible envs and settings in order to draw a
reasonable
conclusion and even then, there are no solutions, but only workarounds.

But I digress - this mailing list is not the place for this kind of
polemics.
:-) :-) :-)

Best regards,
Jean



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  RE: IR Tower and Hyperthreading
 
<SNIP> (...) 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 (...) (21 years ago, 8-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)

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