Tuesday, August 10, 2010

arm board(beagle clones) - how to see it

1. has both wince and linux support
2. has 2 boot options .. from nand and mmc/sd
3. mmc/sd serves the purpose of floppy on desktop
4. with a bareskeleton nand , mmc booting can be used to flash other components to it
5. with a zero nand content , special techniques of using serial null modem cable to set it up for
basic booting
6. binaries used for mmc/sd booting .. MLO,uboot,kernel,rfs .. for nand XLOADER,uboot,kernel rfs
7. another important component the environment variables .. they are stored on the nand
8. there is separate section for mmc/sd env and nand env .. inaddition on the nand there are some other basic data
9. rfs can be on nand or sd interchangebly
10.some useful system running over it wince,0xdroid,rowboat etc

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