[NTLK] voyager software development

[Bhavishya Goel]

Thanks Matthias!

It is for toggling the select signal to choose between interconnect port and
internal card, as Eckhart suggested in other thread. But it sounds like a
lot of work. :-(
Any suggestions?

Bhavi

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Matthias Melcher <mm at matthiasm.com> wrote:

>
> On 04.03.2011, at 19:13, Bhavishya Goel wrote:
>
> > So how does one get started with software development for voyager? What
> > documents should I read? What development environment one can use? Where
> do
> > I download stuff? etc etc
>
> You can install BasiliskII and run MacOS with the original developer tools.
> You probably want to read everything that is available for the driver
> developers kit (DDK), but in the end, there is relatively little about the
> Voyager chip itself, because NewtonOS was not supposed to be bound to a
> specific hardware.
>
> Beyond that, there is the ROM itself which - as part of the DDK - has much
> of the symbolic information still attached. You can use a disassembler to
> read the code.
>
> You can also debug the live system when running Einstein. It has a built-in
> debugger window called "Monitor", which is available on the current SVN
> version of Einstein for OS X. You can set breakpoints and view memory. Very
> nice.
>
> Is that for serial port redirection?
>
>  - Matthias
>
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