Re: [Ltib] Help regarding new board based on LPC3240, possiblity of paied work..

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi A,

You need to post some _actual_ output so we can see what errors you're
getting otherwise we can only guess.

Regards, Stuart

Ayewin Oung wrote:
> Hi list
> 
> I'm looking into possibilities of "getting embedded linux" on our custom
> board which is based on LPC3240, although its similar to existing Phytec
> & EA boards, its has major differences in following areas:
> 
> 1. External memory has only 32Mbyte of DDR x16 chip.
> 2. Flash is SDL, 2Gbits.
> 3. Network (this is the real difference) is via our FPGA (i.e. RMII
> interface of LPC3240 is connected to FPGA not PHY).
> 4. And other minor things like LEDs and I2C ( we do NOT have LCD screen,
> USB, SD card, I2S EEPROM etc ).
> 
> We have the board running with uCOSII OS and all hardware is good, and
> we have all software to run.  We are kind of new to embedded Linux and
> reading on the net suggest Ltib is the way to go for LPC32x0.
> 
> However, I'm finding it very difficult to configure and even build the
> ltib with custom board configuration, I'm confident its something we are
> not doing or doing it wrong.
> 
> Is there step by step guide or documentation out there where we can use
> to port our board ?  The very first issue we have is:
> 
> 1. Building uboot with our own modification to network interface (i.e.
> we need to configure FPGA before network interface can be initialised,
> also we we have extra headers for ethernet packet, so we need to hack
> the code around inside uboot networking ).
> 2. After that we need to hack the device drivers to support our devices.
> 
> Any help much appreciated ?
> 
> Alternatively, we have some budget ( < 500U$ ) to get some remote
> support/help to get our guys going with building the embedded linux, we
> need help on areas like where the files are located, how to build
> scripts/makefiles are stitched, so that we can add our files etc etc.
> (we dont expect any coding help).
> 
> If anyone interested esp. with experience in LPC32x0, Linux development
> and networking, pls reply and I'll get in touch..
> 
> Thanks all.
> 
> A
> 
>