Digi 9P 9360/9750 manual Introduction, Overview, Cross-development environment

I n t r o d u c t i o n

Introduction

C H A P T E R 1

Overview

The LxNETES package enables you to easily develop software under Linux 2.6 for Digi International and FS Forth-Systeme embedded modules supported in this release of LxNETES.

This document assumes that you have basic knowledge of Linux. In addition, it is recommended that you have experience with compiling a standard Linux kernel on your host PC. If you are new to Linux, the following books are recommended for resources:

1.) Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition, by J. Corbet, A. Rubini, and G. Kroah-Hartman, ISBN 0-596-00590-3

2.) Debian Reference http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/reference.en.html

The following sections explain the several parts that compose the LxNETES package.

Cross-development environment

Whenever you need to generate code for an embedded target on a development system with a different microprocessor architecture, you need a cross-development environment. That is, you need a compiler that executes in your development system (for example a x86 PC) but generates code that executes in a different processor (for example your target is NET+ARM).

LxNETES provides the GNU cross-development tool chain for NET+ARM, ARM, and X-Scale, which contains the compiler, linker, assembler, and shared libraries needed to generate software for the supported platforms.

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