From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FrJ3E-0002oy-Ig for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 18:28:12 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5GIQvOt024633; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 18:26:57 GMT Received: from wx-out-0102.google.com (wx-out-0102.google.com [66.249.82.204]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5GIQusZ007521 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 18:26:56 GMT Received: by wx-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id s14so523569wxc for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:26:56 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:from:to:references:subject:date:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-priority:x-msmail-priority:x-mailer:x-mimeole; b=l9rZeP0Rq34nP6FYKVBAicCNyqVGTCiDxXM/SlUMY3JV/Id3IBY10EZh2uWbgW8BELpnTP7vlekW6Mw05IYnJi2Ozz1yLw0xdn6cbzMwpdPR4E95k5Pnt5ry2I2erc4eJK3ThkPL2ARnPkY8V353oJwNYJaYAOL0Op5uZBgqUYQ= Received: by 10.70.71.9 with SMTP id t9mr4387544wxa; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:26:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from LiveStrong ( [66.202.34.162]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id h9sm2902916wxd.2006.06.16.11.26.52; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:26:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <000c01c69172$6b4bb220$0201a8c0@LiveStrong> From: "Anish Patel" To: References: <4491D37E.4080901@chuckr.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Using Gentoo for project Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 14:26:42 -0400 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-Archives-Salt: 50bc8e97-9677-41b9-aa0e-37e05781c3aa X-Archives-Hash: 1e49162d4bda2f60483ceb33bf9590be 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" To: Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 1:26 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Using Gentoo for project > On 6/15/06, Chuck Robey 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 > > -- > ======================= > Cliff Brake > http://bec-systems.com > -- > gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org mailing list