Porting of ArchLinux to Telechips TCC8925 based Equiso

[sathishmls]

Hello everyone,

A new Android based HDMI stick device called Equiso URL - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/202 ... a-smart-tv is being developed which currenly runs Android 4.0 and possibly Android 4.1.

I want to run ArchLinux on Equiso. Hence i decided to port it to Equiso before the device reaches me
Parallelly i have another forum http://forum.sknsons.com

The Equiso uses Cortex A5 based Telechips TCC8925 processor.

Please can you all share me the development environment which i will need like ARM emulator(must support Cortex-A5), Cortex-A5 supported GCC, etc...


Thanks,
B.Sathish Kumar

[maraudero]

Hi there.
I'm also interested in porting archlinux to this devices. I've buyed a cheap mini-pc with a telechips board and began to compile some things like kernel, ncurses...
The toolchain i'm using is arm-linux-none-gnueabi (available in AUR). Ncurses and kernel (the one from telechips) compiled OK, but then I try to compile nano and configure fails to load the curses library. I must have something misconfigured in my environment but i don't know... and the lack of info for this telechips don't help too much

I will try this week to look time for work on this and publish more info.

p.d. I'm not english speaker, apologies for the bad english. I try to do the best I can

p.p.d Anyone know how to debug this devices over usb? An usb-rs232 cable? It's my first attempt to port something to arm and also my first try on embebbed systems so i'm completely lost... Any help would be greatly appreciated

[WarheadsSE]

There is nothing to "port". You need to bring your own kernel & modules, otherwise grab a rootfs tree with the appropriate processor family, and run.