Sounds great. I will be there, too. Pih Lung On 8/6/08, alexanderhenry@cox.net wrote: > > > bah I made a mistake. Here at work I just found the same kind of board I > have at home. By default it only comes with 2 USB's and an ethernet jack, > and an SD card slot. The dev kit has a daughter card which gives you RS232, > and if you want more you have to wire up the DIO's yourself. > > Still gives us a lot of potential to occupy at least an hour, though, it's > just a matter of with what kind of material. I'll report back here before > 9pm tonight. > > > ---- alexanderhenry@cox.net wrote: > > LOL, thought I made this clear... I haven't done anything with the > board, I don't know about drivers and 232's. I have worked much with a > sister-product to this board, mostly administration of a new Linux system > and developing in CGI-C on it. There should be a default busybox install on > it from the factory. I could come in early so we could slap something > together, making sure I can boot the board, minicom in, and maaaaybe make > sure a cross-compiler works from my laptop (it's an iBook G4!), tonight. > > > > Given this, what could we present? Make an appliance that makes two > lights blink from the USB's? It would cover the basics of what busybox and > cross compiling and drivers are about. > > > > > > > > > That would be very a very good topic. If you bring the hardware, are > > > you going to demo it? Would you like to present it? > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 11:42 AM, wrote: > > > > > > > > Embedded Linux howto? Device drivers and bit-banging on RS-232/485? > > > > > > > > I'm kinda thinking only of what I'd like to learn myself as well as > burdening Alan with that suggestion, so I'm hoping there are other > presenters as well as good interest. > > > > > > > > I have a single-board ARM with dev toolkit that has been sitting on a > shelf forever... It's got USB, ethernet, and RS485 ports. At least I could > bring that to the table, if that's at all practical. If I know by today's > end that this could be used I'll at least see if I can boot and minicom into > it tonight. > > > > > > > > If anyone has a simple device that can be wired to a 5V signal or COM > port or USB, that could give us some direction. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ---- Alan Dayley wrote: > > > >> We have a Devel meeting scheduled for tomorrow but I have not > rustled > > > >> up a topic yet. Does anyone have a topic they'd like to suggest or, > > > >> better yet, present? > > > >> > > > >> Alan > > > >> --------------------------------------------------- > > > >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > > >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > > >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Pih Lung Pang