MX1 (arm assembly)

From: Matthieu (no.spam_at_here.fr)
Date: 07/24/03 

Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 22:11:39 +0200

Greetings,

I'm currently evaluationg the MX1 ADS board and i love it ! I'm new to the
embedded world.
After few weeks, i have made my own little distribution

But i'll have to program some assembly program. For the moment i only know
x86 asm but I'm quite happy to learn a new assembly language.
But i'm looking for advices:

- I'm looking for a simulator (for linux x86), to practice and trace step by
step my arm program.
  Because it's quite a loss of time to transfer from pc to mx1 (i use zmodem
or ftp)
  [i'm trying to mount an nfs partition, but it don't seem to work :
busybox's mount is too primitive?]

- In the MX1ADS board there is 3 partions inside the flash :
bootloader/kernel/rootdisk. How to manage/resize these partitions ?

- Is there a place where i should take a really complte arm cross tool
chain. For the moment i have the "basic" one : gcc 2.95.3/glib 2.2.3.
  But i have some problems to build a new one from scratch (define inhibit
hack ???).. it doesn't compile.

Thanks a lot.