Cliff Brake wrote:
On 6/15/06, Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I wanted to see if I could begin a rather long-term project to make use
of Gentoo, to create a project for ultimate installation on a Zaurus
SL-C3000 (and where I would specify a rather large amount of available
disk space). The trouble right now is, I don' know the status of Gentoo
with regards to supporting such a project (even just supplying another
project that is close to it in architecture, such as also using the
Xscale processor, or maybe allowing the QT environment and a frame
buffer).
If Gentoo has such a project, or any project that I might use as a jump
off point, could I please get and name of this project, and a pointer
either to a tarball, or maybe a documentation web page, and what mailing
list I could use. I'm trying for extra info.
My idea right now is to base a project upon the Pengutronix PTXdist
build environment. It's based directly upon make, and doesn't try to
build it's own build tool, which I like a lot. I don't want to solicit
help here, you folks have your own projects to work on (although I
wouldn't reject such help), so don't worry about my asking for a huge
amunt of help from you, but please, coul dyou give me some Gentoo
pointers to get me started off? The Gentoo pages themselves seem to be
very bare of pointers to any Embedded project, it seems.
Someone has gentoo running on a NSLU2 which has a Xscale ARM processor
-- might be a good place to start:
Yes, I saw this ... all the things I have seen regarding installation of
Gentoo into a PDA (inclduing Xscale) target, they all seem to be
predicated upon having the target itself to build the gentoo upon. It
seems that there is no way to use any sort of cross-compiling to be able
to generate a gentoo system... I *think* I could capure a i586 gentoo
system, figure out each of the binaries, and make sure my system builds
them Iinclduing emerge, all the portage things), and then try to just
copy the config files. Is that what I must do? It just seems to me
that someone must have tried to assemble a gentoo environment before this.
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/GentooSlug/HomePage
I personally really like Openembedded because it has good support for
cross compiling apps and contains lots of packages. Running gentoo
and other distros on Xscale targets is possible, but seems hardly
practical due to the very long compile times.
Cliff
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