Embedded Handbook/Boards/Hammer Board and Nail Board

General topics
Introduction
Compiling with QEMU user chroot
Creating a cross-compiler
Cross-compiling with Portage
Cross-compiling the kernel
Frequently asked questions
Emulators
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Bootloaders
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SH-LILO

Little-endian armv4l board.

Nail Board specifications

Board specifications:

CODE

# All power received from the USB port (no external power supply required)
# Male (upstream) USB connector
# Female (downstream) USB connector
# Complete USB JTAG device on board (via internal FT2232)
# USB Hub on board
# USB serial port console (via internal FT2232)
# USB controlled GPIO's (for configuration)
# USB gadget interface (via the Hammer module)
    * Ethernet Gadget Driver (default)
    * Serial Port Gadget Driver
    * Mass Storage Driver

# USB host interface (via the Hammer module)
    * USB 1.1 Compliant
    * Low Speed Support (2mb)
    * Full Speed Support (12mb)

# 3 User LED's available
    * Two on the Nail Board
    * One user LED on the Hammer module
    * USER led on the Hammer Board

# 2 interrupt driven pushbutton switches
# User controlled PWM buzzer
# Reset button
# Power LED
# Expansion header (20-pin: 2 x10)
    * +5V available
    * +3.3V available
    * 2 SPI ports
    * 2 wire Serial Port  (TX/RX)
    * GPIO's
    * External Interrupts
    * Headers can be jumper configured

# Hammer module breakout header
    * Access to all 40 I/O pins of the Hammer module
    * 0.1 inch headers

/proc/cpuinfo

CPU info:

FILE /proc/cpuinfo

Processor	: ARM920T rev 0 (v4l)
BogoMIPS	: 101.17
Features	: swp half thumb 
CPU implementer	: 0x41
CPU architecture: 4T
CPU variant	: 0x1
CPU part	: 0x920
CPU revision	: 0
Cache type	: write-back
Cache clean	: cp15 c7 ops
Cache lockdown	: format A
Cache format	: Harvard
I size		: 16384
I assoc		: 64
I line length	: 32
I sets		: 8
D size		: 16384
D assoc		: 64
D line length	: 32
D sets		: 8

Hardware	: TCT_HAMMER
Revision	: 0000
Serial		: 0000000000000000

Cross compile preparation

Setup uClibc:

root #echo '>=cross-arm-softfloat-linux-uclibc/gcc-4' >> /etc/portage/package.mask

root #echo 'dev-embedded/openocd ft2232 ftdi' >> /etc/portage/package.use

root #modprobe ftdi_sio

root #emerge openocd

root #ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~*" emerge crossdev

root #crossdev arm-softfloat-linux-uclibc

Setup uClibc and EABI:

root #echo '>=cross-armv4l-softfloat-linux-uclibceabi/gcc-4' >> /etc/portage/package.mask

root #echo 'dev-embedded/openocd ft2232 ftdi' >> /etc/portage/package.use

root #modprobe ftdi_sio

root #emerge openocd

root #ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~*" emerge crossdev

root #crossdev armv4tl-softfloat-linux-uclibceabi

External resources

• TinCanTools
• TCT-Hammer Wiki
• Hammer Board
• Nail Board
• Default Kernel Config
• Nail Schematic
• (Gentoo Embedded) Reference Firmware
• (Gentoo Embedded) Reference Kernel Config

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