Running a Buildroot System for Mini2440
Startup RequirementIn my earlier write up i've showed how to Build a Root File System manually from the ground up base on the FHS, in fact there are a few system tools available to automate this...
View ArticleMadplay Music Player
The madplay is a mp3 player, it is a command line music player without any fancy user front-end, but serve the purpose if we want an easy way to install and test our machine to listen on music.First...
View ArticleSDL Multimedia Library
SDL is a cross platform multimedia library provide access to low level system hardware and many applications use to operate on MPEG playback.Since it is a low level software it is usually require as a...
View ArticleMotion Webcam on Mini2440
This is an interesting webcam library that will detect movement object on camera and start capturing the motion picture on mpeg format, there are other feature that allow capture video record into a...
View Articletslib Touch Screen
This is a very popular library, almost every small device test board use it to navigating on a touch screen with an GUI applications.It can be download in tslib.As usual, unzip the file and configure...
View Articlethttpd Web Server
This is a open source light weight web server to implement HTTP/1.1, easy to setup with minimum effort to get it running.Download a copy of thttpd to unzip.Configure and compile it../configure...
View ArticleBuild initrd Image on Mini2440
Startup RequirementYou need to build a root filesystem.This build will create an initial RAM disk as a permanent root filesystem in NAND.On kernel startup, the bootloader pass the load address of...
View ArticleBuild Root File System on Mini2440
Startup RequirementYou need to have a compiled busybox and the kernel configure with Virtual File memory, NFS client support and the kernel level autoconfiguration function.This build will create a new...
View ArticleUpdate Kenel Image on Mini2440
Startup RequirementYou need to have a working installed bootloader in the target system, set the switch to NAND BOOT and reset the board into the command prompt.This update will override the old kernel...
View ArticleUpdate U-boot Image on Mini2440
Startup RequirementYou need a BIOS to bootstrap the target system (the supervivi bootloader is use in this example from the Mini2440 package), set the switch to NOR BOOT and reset the board.This update...
View ArticleMini2440 FriendlyARM for Embedded Developer
Startup IntroductionMini2440 is an ARM9 architecture device providing embedded RISC Microprocessor solution empower from the Samsung S3C2440 CPU, the device has a 64M RAM and 128M Flash memory, equip...
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