Re: Linux on Pilz o215 hardware

[Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 12:33:33 PM Tom Watson wrote:
> Back a few years ago, I posted a question on trying to get a Linux kernel
> loaded on the Pilz o215 hardware.  I remember some replies, but was busy
> and didn't get around to doing anything.  Fast forward to today, and I
> dredged out the hardware and have renewed interest in trying to get this
> operational.
> 
> It is a nice little box that works on 24 vdc (quite portable) with sound
> and a couple of serial ports,  It even has a USB port for peripherals and
> inbound.
> 
> I have a 5Gbyte PCMCIA card that would fit nicely to make this work, but as
> I really don't know how this thing even boots up (it currently displays a
> nice Pilz splash screen and goes onto [yuck] Windows CE).
> 
> If all it needed was a suitably formatted PCMCIA drive I would be most
> happy (I can dream, can't I?).
> 
> According to WinCE (yuck again) it has 50 Meg bytes of ram memory.  I don't
> know what the ratio to ARM to x86 code is but it should be enough to get
> the job done.
> 
> Thanks for any pointers.  I promise to be more interested this time.

Well if it's strongarm, then grab linux sources, derive support for your 
platform and start adding stuff.

Anyway, you'll likely need some UART connection to connect to the bootloader and 
maybe ethernet for TFTP boot, who knows what does the thing run as a loader

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