Retto.net - Linux on the Panel PC PPC55S

About

Retto.Net is a haven for various projects I have been playing with over the years that may be of interest to others.

PPC55S

These are patches/extensions to the RedHat Embedded Development Kit 1.1, to allow it to target an Intel i386SX CPU. The RedHat distribution targets Pentium class CPUs and above making it necessary to recompile (and massage) parts of the distribution to ensure i386 clean code is being produced.

In conjunction with these patches I am including various EDK projects for the Advantech Panel PC - PPC55S. Advantech produce embedded PCs and touchscreen based industrial PCs.

The PPC55S, while being obsolete, makes a fine user interface device; measuring (WxHxD) 200 x 143 x 64 mm it provides a color 320x200 LCD touchscreen display on a network enabled, i386 based PC.

What's Available

RedHat EDK 1.1 for Intel 386 based controllers
2.2.14-5 linux kernel module for PPC55S, Watchdog Timer and VGA screen control
PPC55S Bios patch to include Etherboot TCP/IP boot ROM
A bootable runtime filesystem suitable for tftp/nfs booting a PPC55.
Code using SVGA library & interface to the touchscreen.

Disclaimer

It is possible to damage your PPC55 with some of these projects. Use them at your own risk.

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