On Fri Jan 30, 2004 at 03:30:53PM -0700, Dr. Craig Hollabaugh wrote: > On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 15:01, David Meggy wrote: > > I really can't see a really embedded system being able to pull binary > > packages from a Debian server. I think any really embedded system, > > would need a server in the middle, to watch debian (security) sources, > > then recompile, and re-offer the packages as binaries. > > That would be a huge undertaking seeing all the microprocessor variants > even with a family. For example, PowerPC. You can't run PPC code across > the board, there are FPU, cache and other issues. Its a mess, but > embedded Linux vendors have gone down this road and offer BSPs for all > these families and variants. So its possible. However, I can't see a > PPC823 natively compiling its own distribution of debian. How long would > that take? This is something to consider.
Which is why solutions such as http://scratchbox.org/ make sense, since it makes a fast build system (such as an x86) act as a native target system, by using binfmt_misc, a cross-development system, and an nfsmount.... -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen http://codepoet-consulting.com/ --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons--
