[Arm-dev] Intro, and platforms

[Lamar Owen]

On 04/05/2016 09:03 AM, Jim Perrin wrote:
>
> On 04/04/2016 04:44 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
>> ...
>> Is there specific information I can get from the Ubuntu install that
>> would be useful for C7 purposes?
>
> There are two blocking issues with the C2 right now....
> In theory you could create an arm64/aarch64 'userspace' build similar to
> what Fabian has done on the 32bit side, but I've not done any legwork
> around that. Is that something you'd have an inclination (and the free
> time) to help with?

Jim,

Thanks for the explanation; this matches what I had kindof figured (but 
I had hoped I was mistaken).

Yes, I have the inclination and I have some time to work on this; what 
sort of tools will I need?  I have the UART cable for serial console, 
and I'm currently using only MicroSD to boot.

I will say that while my employer is willing to pay me to get the little 
box running for the RFI sniffer (GNUradio required), and while I would 
vastly prefer C7 on it, C7 isn't a hard requirement for the sniffer 
project.  It would make it easier for me, and I am the one in charge of 
the project here, since I can then do any dev work on my laptop and just 
build on the C2.  With using Ubuntu it is a bit more difficult for me.  
I would think that this would be a desireable board to support, though, 
but I of course reserve the right to be wrong....

Thanks again!