Hello,
The cross building toolchain and the root filesystem generation are the
most critical parts for me.
For many embedded systems, developers use machines with a different
architecture than for the target, typically build=amd64 and
target=armhf. An up-to-date easy to install cross-toolchain is a
minimum, but a cross-build system is far better. It allow to directly
produce Debian packages that can be added to the list of packages to be
installed by the root filesystem generator. In a ideal world, the
kernel, bootloader, device tree, and system configuration would be nice
to be also packages passed to the root filesystem generator, so it will
yield a fully ready to use image, without additional manual settings.
Achieving those goals are not easy, I am not naive. But this match
somewhat the goals that projects like openemedded, yocto, and buildroot,
to name a few of them, provides to there users. But none of them are
build on the ground of a high quality and widely tester distribution
like Debian. In addition there all basically require to recompile
everything instead of using already available packages, wasting a lot of
time. What I want is a process where I can develop and test a Debian
packaged applications on a standard PC and then just add it to the
cross-build system to get it integrated cleanly into the target
filesystem. Linaro is actually the most close project I know that match
what I want, but is heavy rely on Ubuntu specifics dependencies.
Best Regards,
Jean-Christian
Le 31. 07. 14 19:29, Neil Williams a écrit :
On Thu, 31 Jul 2014 16:43:18 +0200
Ermis Papastefanakis <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
If i understand correctly the Emdebian projet will stop after Grip
3.1 (the equivalent of Debian Squeeze) is phased out?
The Emdebian project is wider than just Emdebian Grip but there's a
separate amount of work to get the other large section - toolchains -
integrated into Debian. Once that is complete, it will be interesting
to see what people want from Emdebian.
Emdebian Grip 3.1 is based on Wheezy, not squeeze.
http://emdebian.org/News/2013/20130615.html
Emdebian Grip 3.1 will not be worth keeping once Debian drops Wheezy
as oldstable. Wheezy is currently Debian stable - the Jessie freeze
starts in November this year, release at end of 2014 / beginning of 2015
- this is the point at which wheezy becomes old-stable. At some point in
probably 2016, Debian will drop wheezy from the mirrors in preparation
for the release freeze of Jessie+1 (to make room for Jessie to become
oldstable). By that time, I don't expect anyone to still be wanting Grip
3.1 or Wheezy.
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