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| WebStatistics | 24 Apr 2014 - 14:47 - r1.1666 | Main.guest |
| Statistics for PPCEmbedded Web Month: Topic views: Topic saves: File uploads: Most popular topic views: Top contributors for topic save and uploads: Apr 2014 5545 ... | ||
| SELF | 01 Oct 2009 - 17:13 - r1.2 | WolfgangDenk |
| SELF Simple Embedded Linux Framework A simple default configuration for Embedded Linux systems that is suitable as starting point for building your own systems. ... | ||
| BANK | 02 Nov 2006 - 13:16 - r1.2 | WolfgangDenk |
| BANK also "memory bank" A bank of memory (flash or RAM) consists of all those memory chips on your system that are controlled by the same chip select signal. For ... | ||
| WebHome | 24 Jan 2006 - 16:27 - r1.6 | DanielB |
| Welcome to the home of TWiki.PPCEmbedded. This is a web-based collaboration area for the Linux for PowerPC Embedded Systems HOWTO Linux for PowerPC Systems HOWTO ... | ||
| CompilerToolset | 11 Jan 2006 - 17:27 - r1.4 | WolfgangDenk |
| SECTION0{name CompilerToolset} Compiler Toolset You'll need the GNU toolchain to compile the kernel, particularly REF{type Section,name gcc,text gcc} and REF{type ... | ||
| WebNotify | 15 Jul 2005 - 15:46 - r1.3 | WolfgangDenk |
| This is a subscription service to be automatically notified by e-mail when topics change in this PPCEmbedded web. This is a convenient service, so you do not have ... | ||
| Kernel | 22 Apr 2005 - 10:09 - r1.6 | WolfgangDenk |
| SECTION0{name Kernel} Kernel SECTION1{name Series} Series You will need to decide whether to use a tried-and-tested, stable series kernel, or a development kernel ... | ||
| YellowDog | 26 Feb 2005 - 03:03 - r1.2 | DetlevZundel |
| YellowDog More information about the YellowDog GNU/Linux distribution for PowerPC systems can be found at http://www.yellowdoglinux.com . | ||
| Glossary | 26 Feb 2005 - 03:02 - r1.6 | DetlevZundel |
| SECTION0{name Glossary} Glossary INCLUDE{ABI} INCLUDE{BDM} INCLUDE{BOOTP} INCLUDE{CFI} INCLUDE{CPM} INCLUDE{CPU} INCLUDE{CramFs} INCLUDE{CVS} INCLUDE{DHCP} INCLUDE ... | ||
| DeviceDrivers | 25 Jan 2005 - 16:43 - r1.5 | StephaneFillod |
| SECTION0{name DeviceDrivers} Device Drivers The kernel already includes device drivers for the on-chip serial and ethernet ports. SECTION1{name Examples} Examples ... | ||
| ABI | 14 Nov 2004 - 14:55 - r1.2 | JonMasters |
| ABI Application Binary Interface The convention for register usage and C linkage commonly used on desktop PowerPC machines. Similar, but not identical to the EABI ... | ||
| PCCard | 21 Oct 2003 - 11:38 - r1.2 | WolfgangDenk |
| Card PC Cards are self-contained extension cards especially for laptops and other types of portable computers. In just about the size of a credit card they provide ... | ||
| JTAG | 21 Oct 2003 - 11:32 - r1.2 | WolfgangDenk |
| JTAG Joint Test Action Group A standard (see "IEEE Standard 1149.1") that defines how to control the pins of JTAG compliant devices. Here: An on-chip debug interface ... | ||
| MMU | 21 Oct 2003 - 11:28 - r1.2 | WolfgangDenk |
| MMU Memory Management Unit CPU component which maps kernel- and user-space virtual addresses to physical addresses, and is an integral part of Linux kernel operation ... | ||
| WebPreferences | 18 Sep 2003 - 17:13 - r1.7 | DetlevZundel |
| TWiki.PPCEmbedded Web Preferences The following settings are web preferences of the TWiki.PPCEmbedded web. These preferences overwrite the site-level preferences ... | ||
| MetaPPCEmbedded | 18 Sep 2003 - 17:08 - NEW | DetlevZundel |
| This is a discussion area for structural enhancements to the Wiki edition of the Linux for PowerPC Embedded HOWTO document. Suggestions Topic splits: List of proposed ... | ||
| CPU | 18 Sep 2003 - 15:49 - NEW | DetlevZundel |
| CPU Central Processor Unit Depending on the context, this may refer to the PowerPC core itself, or the physical processor device (including CPM, SIU, packaging etc ... | ||
| PowerPCCPU | 18 Sep 2003 - 15:47 - r1.4 | DetlevZundel |
| SECTION0{name PowerPCCPU} PowerPC CPUs SECTION1{name 4xx} 4xx http://www.borg.umn.edu/~grant/Linux/ SECTION1{name 405GP} IBM 405GP http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/techlib ... | ||
| WebOrder | 18 Sep 2003 - 15:45 - r1.4 | DetlevZundel |
| Resources PowerPCCPU CommercialBoards CompilerToolset BootSequence BootLoader DeviceDrivers RuntimeLibrary | ||
| UPM | 18 Sep 2003 - 15:37 - NEW | DetlevZundel |
| UPM User Programmable Machine A highly flexible bus interfacing machine unit allowing external peripherals with an extremely wide variety of interfacing requirements ... | ||
| UART | 18 Sep 2003 - 15:33 - NEW | DetlevZundel |
| UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter Generically, this refers to any device capable of implementing a variety of asynchronous serial protocols, such ... | ||
| SIU | 18 Sep 2003 - 15:32 - NEW | DetlevZundel |
| SIU System Interface Unit Provides much of the external interfacing logic. It's the other major module on Motorola PowerQUICC devices alongside the CPU core and ... | ||
| SDMA | 18 Sep 2003 - 15:32 - NEW | DetlevZundel |
| SDMA Serial DMA DMA used to transfer data to and from the SCCs. | ||
| PHY | 18 Sep 2003 - 15:28 - NEW | DetlevZundel |
| PHY Physical Interface The IEEE Ethernet standard interface between the external physical layer transceiver and the on-chip ethernet controller in a PowerQUICC device ... | ||
| MII | 18 Sep 2003 - 15:27 - NEW | DetlevZundel |
| MII Media Independent Interface The IEEE Ethernet standard control interface used to communicate between the on-chip Ethernet controller and the external PHY. | ||
| EABI | 18 Sep 2003 - 15:26 - NEW | DetlevZundel |
| EABI Embedded Application Binary Interface The convention for register usage and C linkage commonly used on embedded PowerPC machines, derived from the ABI. | ||
| Alternatives | 18 Sep 2003 - 15:24 - r1.2 | DetlevZundel |
| SECTION0{name Alternatives} Alternatives There are too many commercial embedded operating systems to list here, but if Linux isn't to your liking, here are some other ... | ||
| CommonMistakesAndProblems | 18 Sep 2003 - 15:24 - r1.2 | DetlevZundel |
| SECTION0{name CommonMistakesandProblems} Common Mistakes and Problems Many new developers are likely to encounter at least half of the following common problems, ... | ||
| Performance | 18 Sep 2003 - 15:23 - r1.3 | DetlevZundel |
| SECTION0{name Performance} Performance SECTION1{name CPUcore} CPU core SECTION2{name Cache} Cache Also, make sure you have serialization disabled (Set ICTRL to 0x7 ... | ||
| Debugging | 18 Sep 2003 - 15:18 - r1.3 | DetlevZundel |
| SECTION0{name Debugging} Debugging SECTION1{name BDM} BDM BDM is way cool, especially if you are bringing up a custom board and don't want to invest in an In Circuit ... | ||
| FEC | 16 Sep 2003 - 17:09 - NEW | DetlevZundel |
| FEC Fast Ethernet Controller The 100 Mbps (100Base) Ethernet controller, present on 'T' devices such as the 860T and 855T. | ||
| CPM | 16 Sep 2003 - 17:08 - NEW | DetlevZundel |
| CPM Communications Processor Module The magic communications co-processor in Motorola PowerQUICC devices. It contains SCCs and SMCs, and performs SDMA and IDMA. ... | ||
| DMA | 16 Sep 2003 - 17:07 - NEW | DetlevZundel |
| DMA Direct Memory Access A form a data transfer directly between memory and a peripheral or between memory and memory, without normal program intervention. | ||
| IDMA | 16 Sep 2003 - 17:05 - NEW | DetlevZundel |
| IDMA Independent DMA A general purpose DMA engine with relatively limited throughput provided by the microcoded CPM, for use with external peripherals or memory ... | ||
| SCC | 16 Sep 2003 - 17:01 - NEW | DetlevZundel |
| SCC Serial Communications Controller The high performance module(s) within the CPM which implement the lowest layer of various serial protocols, such as Asynchronous ... | ||
| SMC | 16 Sep 2003 - 16:58 - NEW | DetlevZundel |
| SMC Serial Management Controller A lower performance version of the SCCs with more limited functionality, particularly useful for serial debug ports and low throughput ... | ||
| Applications | 16 Sep 2003 - 16:46 - r1.2 | DetlevZundel |
| SECTION0{name Applications} Applications SECTION1{name StandardGNUtools} Standard GNU tools Standard GNU tools (such as bash , ls , etc) are available in the MontaVista ... | ||
| Threads | 16 Sep 2003 - 16:44 - r1.2 | DetlevZundel |
| SECTION0{name Threads} Threads If you need multithreading, using POSIX threads will give your application portability, even to non-Linux embedded systems. For example ... | ||
| RealtimeResponse | 16 Sep 2003 - 16:41 - r1.3 | DetlevZundel |
| SECTION0{name Realtime} Realtime Response Check out MontaVista's Linux Real-Time characterisation projects at http://www.mvista.com/realtime SECTION1{name Soft} Soft ... | ||
| RootFilesystem | 16 Sep 2003 - 16:39 - r1.3 | DetlevZundel |
| SECTION0{name RootFilesystem} Root Filesystem The kernel needs a root filesystem to mount at startup. There are many options, and the best one will generally depend ... | ||
| RuntimeLibrary | 16 Sep 2003 - 16:35 - r1.4 | DetlevZundel |
| SECTION0{name RuntimeLibrary} Runtime Library SECTION1{name glibc} glibc and http://sources.redhat.com/glibc/ Modern releases of glibc are very large for a traditional ... | ||
| SPI | 16 Sep 2003 - 16:34 - NEW | DetlevZundel |
| SPI Serial Peripheral Interface A relatively simple synchronous serial interface for connecting low speed external devices using minimal wires. | ||
| BootLoader | 16 Sep 2003 - 16:17 - r1.3 | DetlevZundel |
| SECTION0{name BootLoader} Boot Loader If you're using custom hardware, or want to replace the ROM monitor on your board, you'll need a boot loader that knows how ... | ||
| ROMMonitor | 16 Sep 2003 - 16:14 - r1.3 | DetlevZundel |
| SECTION0{name ROMMonitor} ROM Monitor If you're using custom hardware, you'll need a ROM monitor to help bring it up. A monitor generally provides a simple command ... | ||
| BootSequence | 12 Sep 2003 - 02:05 - r1.3 | DetlevZundel |
| SECTION0{name BootSequence} Boot Sequence The Linux boot sequence is more complicated than your average embedded operating system, and there are many more options ... | ||
| ProgrammingTheTarget | 12 Sep 2003 - 01:53 - r1.3 | DetlevZundel |
| SECTION0{name ProgrammingTheTarget} Programming the Target Beware that many commercial tools will not handle the Linux zImage correctly. They often ignore the and ... | ||
| GPL | 12 Sep 2003 - 01:42 - NEW | DetlevZundel |
| GPL / LGPL GNU General Public License/Lesser General Public License The full license text can be found at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html . The licenses under ... | ||
| HostDevelopmentPlatform | 12 Sep 2003 - 01:36 - r1.4 | DetlevZundel |
| SECTION0{name HostDevelopmentPlatform} Host Development Platform Embedded Linux's compelling advantage over other Embedded OS's is that your development host and ... | ||
| CommercialBoards | 12 Sep 2003 - 01:32 - r1.3 | DetlevZundel |
| SECTION0{name CommercialBoards} Commercially available boards There are many off-the-shelf options including systems from Motorola and other parties. If you're planning ... | ||
| RAMAndROMSpace | 12 Sep 2003 - 01:20 - r1.4 | DetlevZundel |
| SECTION0{name RAMAndROMSpace} RAM and ROM space Linux has a slightly larger memory footprint than most conventional embedded operating systems when configured with ... | ||
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