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Re: Improving the firmware?
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lugnet.robotics.nxt
Date: 
Mon, 8 Jan 2007 12:24:11 GMT
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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

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.

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.

Jason R



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(...) 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 (...) (18 years ago, 13-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)

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  Re: Improving the firmware?
 
In article <JBFwGp.30p@lugnet.com>, Guy Ziv <guy@nxtasy.org> writes (...) 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 (...) (18 years ago, 8-Jan-07, to lugnet.robotics.nxt)

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