User manual

Linux Guide taskit GmbH
1. Introduction
Your product is delivered with an customized Linux and the bootloader U-Boot.
This document will describe how to install and customize the operation system and it will
also describe how to handle the drivers for the input and output devices.
Furthermore it will describe how to setup an development system and you will be given
small examples that demonstrate how to compile your own applications and how to use
the input devices and the display in your applications.
Because of the wide variety of existing operating systems taskit can only give support for
the Debian GNU/Linux operating system.
Taskit is utilising the Linux-based operating system Debian (www.debian.org) as
development system because it is one of the most reliable operating systems.
Furthermore it is easy to install additional software on Debian because you only need the
tool apt-get to automatically download software packages that are installed and configured
automatically.
Debian can be downloaded free from the internet and the installation is also very easy
because you only need to download a portion (http://www.uk.debian.org/distrib/netinst)
and the remaining parts will be automatically downloaded and installed from the internet.
A cross-platform toolchain for cross compiling on Debian can be found on the starterkit-
CD.
Developing on MS Windows is not supported by taskit.
Instructions for the first start-up are located in the QuickStartGuide.
If you want to develop your own drivers or hardware extensions you will have to work the
appropriate Technical Reference and Atmel manual for your product over.
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