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Re: Development status
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Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:25:57 GMT
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Stephen M Moraco wrote:
> In lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> > That's great news so far :-) Some time ago, however, I've tried to get brickOS
> > to run on those old h8300 bricks, but it only seemed to work when using an old
> > tool-chain (which is also the reason why the related packages never got upgraded
> > to newer versions in Debian).
> >
> > Unfortunately, I also don't have any access to bricks at the moment, so if
> > someone still has access to those bricks, it would be great if you could try out
> > Carl's patched packages. If it works out, I'd happily upgrade the Debian
> > tool-chain to newer versions!
From what I can tell, support for h8300-hitachi-hms(/coff) was dropped
from binutils after 2.16.1. I have no real idea how much work it would
take to port brickOS (plus brickemu, preferably) over to elf, but I
suspect that it'd be a lot. Still, I'll have a look at it to try to
at least figure out how long it might take me if I were to try. It'll
have to wait a bit though, because I have a major grant application due
in a few days, followed by a week-long visit by my mother.
> I'm encouraged by your efforts Carl and I don't have time to do the gcc work so
> Michael, I'd like to take you up on your offer. I do have two of the RCX bricks
> and a number of USB/IR towers and Linux machines. Carl, I've limited time so
> rather than applying the patches one by one to replicate the code base your
> using (which we _will_ have to do eventually) can you offer a ready to build
> code set? I'm only asking this to get a first test so we can prove/disprove
> that Michael does have something to work towards. That is that it does run so
> he can work on updating the toolset. What do you think? Other ideas welcome,
> too. I'm trying to enable us to get working without a larger time commitment
> for the time being...
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> Sound reasonable?
It does indeed. The code with the 9 patches applied is now a tarball at
http://carl.troein.com/res/brickos_patches/brickos-carl-p09.tar.gz
> Again, I really appreciate the time both of you are (or will be ;-) spending!
And I appreciate the encouragement from both of you. :-)
Oh, and I had a look on eBay and found a complete RIS 2.0 that I'll place
a bid on. Mightn't be very expensive, and it can't hurt to have two sets
(especially when one of them resides in a box in a country far away)...
Cheers,
//Carl
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| Hi all, This is great to see there's still some interest. I may not have opportunity to post over the next couple days, but I have created some patches against the latest Sourceforge CVS (as I believe there are a few differences between the CVS and (...) (18 years ago, 30-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| Michael, Carl, (...) I'm encouraged by your efforts Carl and I don't have time to do the gcc work so Michael, I'd like to take you up on your offer. I do have two of the RCX bricks and a number of USB/IR towers and Linux machines. Carl, I've limited (...) (18 years ago, 27-Jan-09, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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