Rebel NetWinder

Little-endian ARMv4 based network server from Rebel.

Rebel NetWinder

Board specifications:

CODE

# DEC/Intel StrongARM 110 processor, ~233MHz
# DEC/Intel 21285 FootBridge chipset
# 32/64/128MB RAM
# Intergraphics Systems CyberPro 2000A graphics chip with 2MB RAM, VGA output
# WinBond 553 IDE controller
# RockWell WaveArtist audio chip
# Philips 7111 video capture/WinBond 9660 TV Encoder
# 1x WinBond 940 10BaseT Ethernet controller
# 1x Digital 21143(Tulip) 10/100BaseT Ethernet controller

/proc/cpuinfo

CPU info:

FILE /proc/cpuinfo

Code Listing 2.1: CPU Info
Processor       : StrongARM-110 rev 4 (v4l)
BogoMIPS        : 185.54
Features        : swp half 26bit fastmult
CPU implementer : 0x44
CPU architecture: 4
CPU variant     : 0x0
CPU part        : 0xa10
CPU revision    : 4

Hardware        : Rebel-NetWinder
Revision        : 59ff
Serial          : 0000000000000000

Cross compile preparation

Setup:

root #emerge --ask crossdev

root #crossdev armv4l-unknown-linux-gnu

Emerge wrapper:

FILE netwinder-merge

#!/bin/sh

CHOST=armv4l-unknown-linux-gnu

#export CBUILD=$(portageq envvar CBUILD)
export SYSROOT="/usr/${CHOST}"
export PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/usr/${CHOST}"

# optional exports
export enable_malloc0returnsnull=yes \
        ac_cv_file__usr_share_sgml_X11_defs_ent=1 \
        ac_cv_func_setpgrp_void=yes ac_cv_func_setgrent_void=yes \
        ac_cv_func_calloc_0_nonnull=yes ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull=yes \
        gl_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull=yes ac_cv_func_realloc_0_nonnull=yes \
        ac_cv_func_memcmp_working=yes ac_cv_func_strnlen_working=yes

# optional export for glib:2
export glib_cv_uscore=no glib_cv_stack_grows=no \
        glib_cv_stack_grows=no  glib_cv_has__inline=yes \
        glib_cv_has__inline__=yes glib_cv_hasinline=yes \
        glib_cv_sane_realloc=yes glib_cv_va_copy=yes \
        glib_cv___va_copy=yes glib_cv_va_val_copy=no \
        glib_cv_rtldglobal_broken=no glib_cv_uscore=no \
        ac_cv_func_posix_getpwuid_r=yes \
        ac_cv_func_posix_getgrgid_r=yes \
        ac_cv_header_pwd_h=yes \
        ac_cv_func_getpwuid_r=yes \
        glib_cv_sizeof_gmutex=40 

FAKEROOT=
if [[ $(id -u) != 0 ]]; then
	if [[ $(type -p fakeroot) != "" ]]; then
		FAKEROOT=fakeroot
	fi
fi

${FAKEROOT} emerge -q "$@"

FILE /usr/armv4l-unknown-linux-gnu/etc/make.conf

CHOST=armv4l-unknown-linux-gnu
CBUILD=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
ARCH="arm"
ROOT=/usr/${CHOST}/
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="arm ~arm"
USE="${ARCH} zlib bindist make-symlinks minimal \
        input_devices_keyboard input_devices_evdev \
        video_cards_fbdev video_cards_dummy"

VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev dummy"

INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse touchscreen"
USE_EXPAND="video_cards input_devices"
MARCH_TUNE="-mcpu=strongarm110"
CFLAGS="-Os -pipe ${MARCH_TUNE} -fomit-frame-pointer -I${ROOT}/usr/include/ -I${ROOT}/include/"

CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
LDFLAGS="-L${ROOT}/usr/lib -L${ROOT}/lib"

PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${ROOT}/usr/lib/pkgconfig/"
MAKEOPTS="-j8"
FEATURES="-collision-protect sandbox buildpkg noman noinfo nodoc"

PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/"
PKGDIR=${ROOT}/packages/
PORTAGE_TMPDIR=${ROOT}/tmp/
PORTAGE_WORKDIR_MODE=2775
PORTAGE_ECLASS_WARNING_ENABLE=0

CLEAN_DELAY=0
EPAUSE_IGNORE=1
EBEEP_IGNORE=1

External resources

• NetWinder.org

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The following people contributed to the original document: Mike Frysinger, Ned Ludd, Robin H. Johnson, Alex Tarkovsky, Alexey Shvetsov, Raúl Porcel, Joshua Saddler on April 28, 2013.
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