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Originally Posted by arivero
Does any of the early adopters plan to hack into the iLiad?
Has anybody got some development tools, or some trick about how to do it?
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I think that development will have to wait until they release the SDK
First of all, we need to know:
- if the iliad uses uclibc or the complete glibc
- (optional) if the processor has floating point unit or not, and if it hasn't, what type of emulation is used (in-kernel fp emulation or soft-float compiled binaries)
- how to install new "viewers"
- what display "driver" they are using; I doubt they use an X server, it makes more sense for them to use something along the lines of FBDev.
The main limitaion right now is how to inject a new executable into the iliad and try it (if there is a security hole as in the librie and we can exec scripts in the SD/CF).
And after all, they should publish all this information with the SDL (one has to be able to test his viewer...).
BTW: I'm eager to start programming for the iliad. I've plenty of experience programming for small embedded linux platforms (for in-house use, but that includes gui and gui-less programs for the zaurus SL-5500 w/ SharpROM, ipaq w/ familiar, Zaurus SL-6000L w/ SharpROM, WRT54G w/OpenWRT, Asus WL-550g w/ Oleg Firmware), and it boils down to having a good crosscompiler toolchain and some patience to iron the bugs that appear when executing your app in the resource-starved embedded linux ;-).
The fact that the iliad will have an SDK has been a deciding factor for me (although the other contenders will have linux, programming for them will be a chore for some time until someone manages to "open" them... and I don't have the time nor the knowledge to do that myself -- well, perhaps some of the knowledge, but I'm sure not all that's needed (hey, I have my ego high today
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Nice to know there are other developers waiting for their Iliads
