From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from skinny.southernlinux.net (ns2.rednecks.net [64.192.52.5]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j3CH2dmb023977 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 17:02:41 GMT Received: (qmail 5603 invoked by uid 210); 12 Apr 2005 13:02:04 -0400 Received: from 10.10.10.188 by skinny (envelope-from , uid 201) with qmail-scanner-1.25st (clamdscan: 0.82/820. f-prot: 4.4.2/3.14.11. spamassassin: 3.0.2. perlscan: 1.25st. Clear:RC:1(10.10.10.188):. Processed in 0.057598 secs); 12 Apr 2005 17:02:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.10.10.188?) (10.10.10.188) by 0 with RC4-MD5 encrypted SMTP; 12 Apr 2005 13:02:04 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] PPC embedded base package From: Ned Ludd To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1113270187.7834.8.camel@localhost> References: <1113270187.7834.8.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 13:02:12 -0400 Message-Id: <1113325332.745.9.camel@localhost> 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 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 50b1e67d-4734-4034-88a3-cab956e61305 X-Archives-Hash: ffd9e64b25626c388f7bc942e0fe5a8e On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 21:43 -0400, Anthony Russello wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm working on a base layout for an embedded system based on the > Freescale 8241 chip, and was wondering what might be available in the > world of gentoo for that purpose. > > Here are the requirements we've laid out: > > Read/write /etc (jffs2 filesystem) > /var is a ramdisk, /tmp is a symlink to /var/tmp > / is read only otherwise (cramfs filesystem) You could go with squashfs here and save quite a bit more space. > As far as apps, we basically just need: > > boa boa is nice. note also busybox has an httpd that's cgi aware. > busybox By default our busybox is built with allsysconfig this enables most tools. > samba 2.2.x (samba 3 requires additional libraries in the final image) > sysvinit I'm pretty sure you don't really need sysvinit with this kind of setup. The init provided by busybox itself should be adequately sufficient. > sqlite > quota-tools > sys-utils Whats sys-utils? > e2fsprogs For mke2fs/tune2fs? For jffs2 your going to want/need the sys-fs/mtd package as well. > Now, we created one a while back using an axis chip, and they had a full > development package that we just modified as needed. In the end we > wound up with an image that had about 2 MB left over of the eight. > RIght now, we're kind of starting fresh with an 8241 based system, so I > wanted to get some input on what recommendations you might have. > > I've already been playing around with a custom thing from the ground up. > But just in case, I'd like to see if there is something else we could > look into. i think that's how most of us got here. It's fun todo the super custom ground up system for a little while. But it's nice to walk away and come back 6 months or a year and not have to update every > I've been using gentoo for quite some time now (since the 1.4 days) but > I haven't been following the gentoo embedded list for the most part. > > Cheers, > Anthony > > -- > gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org mailing list > -- Ned Ludd -- gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org mailing list