[plug] Intro and training/contractor questions for Linux Embedded Deve

[damien at bigaxesolutions.com]

Hi Adrian,


thanks for the recommendation, I looked at wrt website and it seems to  
support various standard hardware devices that are out there (mainly  
routers), but it does not seem to be able to solve all the issues in  
integrating Linux into a newly developed custom hardware platform that  
provides a lot more varied functionality that a off the self router?

For example installing DirectFB into the file system (a current  
blocking factor) or direct I/O access on a custom platform does not  
seem like items that wrt would be able to simply fix?

At this point we are trying to find some options for either training  
or consulting to help solve our knowledge gap of basic low level  
functionality installation into a custom hardware base..

Damien
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:59:12 +0800
> From: Adrian Chadd <adrian at creative.net.au>
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Intro and training/contractor questions for Linux
> 	Embedded Deve
>
> Have you looked at openwrt? It handles the whole patching, tool building
> and package cross-building thing for you.
>
>
> Adrian
>
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011, damien at bigaxesolutions.com wrote:
>> Hi Plug,
>>
>> my names Damien, I work for these guys as a Hardware Engineer :
>> http://www.embedcard.com/.
>>
>> We have recently started looking at our next gen of hardware and are
>> looking at setting up a Embedded Linux system, amongst other things.
>>
>> We have ordered a few dev kits, with some Embed Linux functionality
>> and gone through and learnt some basic stuff such as:
>> - Compiling/cross compiling the kernel
>> - Updating the kernel
>> - Uboot compiling and updating
>> - Basic cross compiled apps "hello world" etc.
>>
>> The learning curve is pretty serious and we are starting to bog down
>> learning things such as
>> - direct/driver I/O Interfacing
>> - Graphic/touch screen usage (trying to use DirectFB at this point)
>>
>> We would like to put the feelers out for any training (or any
>> experienced embed Linux users who would consult) to work with us.
>>
>> Also if anyone has any recommendation for other places to look, please
>> let me know!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Damien Wieman
>>
>>
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