[Lazarus] FPC and Lazarus on ARM

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Fri Mar 25 09:09:59 CET 2011


On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 09:37:52AM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> > wiki page on how to set up a native FPC environment on ARM/Linux.
> 
> e.g. an "ARM-based development systems" page referenced at 
> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Platform_list#Supported_targets_for_ARM
> 
> I'd be happy to contribute what I know, but in short the major issue is 
> getting a distro running on the available hardware. And, it must be 
> said, keeping it running: I've seen tales of woe from Sheevaplug users 
> who've ended up with corrupt or bricked systems.
> 
> In my case I'm using NSLU2 "Slugs", which are supported by a variant of 
> Debian- once running they can use the standard Debian package 
> repositories. I've made some recent progress towards getting something 
> running on some "PC-like" ARM development boards I've got, but I won't 
> have those up for a few weeks due to other demands on my time.

Some other interesting devices (all Marvell kirkwood based):

- WD GOflex.NET: 128MB but two 2.5" sata ports. First attempt at rooting it
  failed, and I am waiting for a jtag cable
- IOMega IConnect - 256 MB.

Besides that I have GlobalScale reference equipment, SheevaPlug (512MB) and
since about a month an OpenRD.

The latter is particularly interesting since it is effectively a desktop
(sata + lots of USB + VGA). I'm planning to install the just new Fedora 13
and need to set up a crosscompile kernel.

Still, I wouldn't advise bying the kirkwood based reference stuff. Quite
expensive (specially when ordered from Europe), and the panda board with its
dual core and armv7 is more interesting. (but I'm told that the DVI from the
Beagle/Panda is digital only)





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