Hi Dave(s),
David McCullough wrote:
Jivin Dave Rensberger lays it down ...
uClinux-dist supports anything (MMU and !MMU).
The kernel in the latest uClinux-dist's is as close to the kernel.org
eleases as possible.
uClinux-dist even lets you add your own kernel easily. For example,
take the "penguinppc" kernel, extract it to a directory at in the dists top
level dir called something like linux-2.6.ppc, and do a "make config", it
will let you chose the new kernel for building.
So what is the purpose of the Snapgear project at this point? I've always thought of Snapgear as basically being uClinux extended to MMU-ful processors, but if the regular uClinux distribution now supports that, what's special about Snapgear?
I've never tried to use the raw uClinux-dist by itself, so please excuse me if
there's a fairly obvious answer to this question. If I used uClinux-dist by
itself, would I be responsible for providing a toolchain and compatible
uClibc/glibc? If this is the case, I can seen an advantage in Snapgear, since
it provides all of this.
Greg will probably give you the real bottom line, but, truth is, there is
no difference. The SnapGear distribution and the uClinux-dist are the same.
You can use the snapgear tools to build either eithout any problems :-)
The snapgear distro serves a few corporate objectives:
1) It's far more obvious that this is the source that we use in our products.
2) It gives us some branding :-)
I don't really need to add anything to that :-)
They are the same source tree. Just repackaged with a different
name.
Regards
Greg
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