Re: [gentoo-embedded] Using Gentoo for project

["Anish Patel" <anish.mailing.list@gmail.com>]

How maintains this port? i am working on using gentoo on the Intel IXP 465 
processors, but can not get the NPE's to come up properly, any help would be 
appreciated.



Anish Patel

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cliff Brake" <cliff.brake@gmail.com>
To: <gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org>
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 1:26 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Using Gentoo for project


> On 6/15/06, Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> 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:
>
> 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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