On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 04:05:37PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote: > Peter Vandenabeele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > > First question is what is your CPU platform (x86, ARM, PowerPC, > > MIPS, ...). It matters, since the efficient _cross-compilation_ of > > Debian packages is one of the issues that is tackled in emdebian. > > The target is a pretty normal x86 system, although there may be others > in the future.
This actually brings you closer to using regular Debian (with copying only the required binaries to your target image). > > If done well, it could become the major source of user land packages > > for embedded systems from a community source (like Debian already is > > in the server/desktop world). And we see customers that require > > widely supported community (non-commercial) sources for their > > packages. > > It looks like a cool effort. If we decide to go that route, I might > be able to participate some in the future, but for the moment I'm > afraid I need to pick something, and quickly too! > > One of the other contenders is snapgear - any opinions on that? A few questions to check are: - community support versus company support (both have pro and con) - how broad is the support for the different applications you need - how much do you want to engineer yourself (with some help of the community) and how much do want to buy from a commercial supplier (there are quite a few on this list) Peter -- Peter Vandenabeele Mind: Embedded Linux and eCos Development -- http://mind.be/
