Porting Minix C/assembler source code to iPAQ (StrongARM CPU)

Konrad Rzeszutek, Paul Gonin, Venkata Mahadevan, Suchada Phalachaipiromsil

1. Introduction

2. How this guide is organized.

3. Explanation of terms.

4. Building a cross-toolchain

• 4.1 Getting the right sources
• 4.2 Installing binutils
• 4.3 Setting up headers for the cross-compiler
• 4.4 Building GCC.
• 4.5 Thoughts

5. Porting Minix

• 5.1 The problems with Cross-compiling Minix
• 5.2 Obtaining a Bootloader for the Ipaq
• 5.3 Makefile
• 5.4 C/Assembler linkage
• 5.5 Text address
• 5.6 What's the deal with the "_function_name"?
• 5.7 Since I'm not using headers, how do I know where the program will start from?

6. The porting process.

• 6.1 Get to know thyself
• 6.2 Some thoughts
• 6.3 Providing Input to the Ipaq
• 6.4 Bootloader installation
• 6.5 Printk and Standard Output
• 6.6 Assembler Libraries (klib and mpx)
• 6.7 Setting up a stack for the C Environment

7. Conclusions and Future work

8. Links

• 8.1 Websites
• 8.2 Newsgroups
• 8.3 IRC channels