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Tiny Core Base => Micro Core => Topic started by: jimmyd on April 15, 2010, 08:59:33 PM

Title: Porting TC to ARM Cortex-8
Post by: jimmyd on April 15, 2010, 08:59:33 PM

Is this possible? Difficult? Freely admit I have no clue.  It just occurred to me that I like the whole TC idea so much that it would work wonderfully on an embedded system, no?

Title: Re: Porting TC to ARM Cortex-8
Post by: roberts on April 15, 2010, 09:13:10 PM

Yes. I have much interest in this area. Most of  Core I have tried to write using only busybox, ash and awk. This is to be as portable as possible

Might be an approach to back into Arm by adding Tiny Core infastructure onto existing Arm Linux kernel and modules of an existing Arm based Linux System. There are several such to choose from to begin such a port
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I have seen Ubuntu running on Arm. Tiny Core would likely be much quicker.

Also see: http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/ which runs on the Archos 5IT which is ARM Cortex-8
I have not see this run.

Title: Re: Porting TC to ARM Cortex-8
Post by: burner on March 28, 2011, 04:11:02 AM

I know this is an old thread, but what's the status on this?

I got a Pandaboard lying aroud here, and really would like to get TC running on that.
My experience is limited to x86, though, so I have no idea where to start.
Any hints are appreciated

Title: Re: Porting TC to ARM Cortex-8
Post by: tinypoodle on March 28, 2011, 04:49:07 AM

http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=8863.0
might give you some hints   ;)

Title: Re: Porting TC to ARM Cortex-8
Post by: burner on March 28, 2011, 06:25:34 AM

ok, gotta try google translate, but that might get me some information, thx

Title: Re: Porting TC to ARM Cortex-8
Post by: tinypoodle on March 28, 2011, 06:33:11 AM

The video works even without a translator ;)

Title: Re: Porting TC to ARM Cortex-8
Post by: burner on March 28, 2011, 07:08:08 AM

didn't get to the video, yet. still at work here :(

Title: Re: Porting TC to ARM Cortex-8
Post by: vinnie on March 28, 2011, 07:43:22 AM

in short what is an Italian user who compiled a Microcore for "aPad Eken M003", says that not everything works, but in general he can use Microcore

Title: Re: Porting TC to ARM Cortex-8
Post by: burner on March 28, 2011, 09:27:04 AM

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but in general he can use Microcore

that would be enough for starters :)
I'll definately have a look at it when I'm at home, thx for the abstract

Title: Re: Porting TC to ARM Cortex-8
Post by: knightrous on May 10, 2011, 02:11:02 AM

Just to bring this to the top again, I saw this new device called the Raspberry Pi, then instantly thought of TC running on it....
(http://www.raspberrypi.org/pcb.jpg)
http://www.raspberrypi.org/

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Provisional specification:

    700MHz ARM11
    128MB of SDRAM
    OpenGL ES 2.0
    1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode
    Composite and HDMI video output
    USB 2.0
    SD/MMC/SDIO memory card slot
    General-purpose I/O
    Open software (Ubuntu, Iceweasel, KOffice, Python)

The expected price is $25 for a fully-configured system.

Any more motivation for TC ARM :D

Title: Re: Porting TC to ARM Cortex-8
Post by: tinypoodle on May 10, 2011, 02:30:45 AM

http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=9550.0