User Guide

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Introduction
Introduction
CHAPTER 1
Overview
The LxNETES package enables you to easily develop software under Linux 2.6 for Digi
International and FS Forth-Systeme embedded modules supported in this release of
LxNETES.
This document assumes that you have basic knowledge of Linux. In addition, it is
recommended that you have experience with compiling a standard Linux kernel on your
host PC. If you are new to Linux, the following books are recommended for resources:
1.) Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition, by J. Corbet, A. Rubini, and G. Kroah-Hartman,
ISBN 0-596-00590-3
2.) Debian Reference
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/reference.en.html
The following sections explain the several parts that compose the LxNETES package.
Cross-development environment
Whenever you need to generate code for an embedded target on a development system
with a different microprocessor architecture, you need a cross-development environment.
That is, you need a compiler that executes in your development system (for example a x86
PC) but generates code that executes in a different processor (for example your target is
NET+ARM).
LxNETES provides the GNU cross-development tool chain for NET+ARM, ARM, and
X-Scale, which contains the compiler, linker, assembler, and shared libraries needed to
generate software for the supported platforms.