From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j442Ni6l007230 for ; Wed, 4 May 2005 02:23:44 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=home.wh0rd.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DT9Y9-0006Tq-W7 for gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 04 May 2005 02:23:46 +0000 Received: (qmail 28218 invoked from network); 3 May 2005 22:17:39 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 3 May 2005 22:17:39 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] openssl for arm Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 22:25:28 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <4277E24C.1050006@invisibles.org> <200505032130.38769.vapier@gentoo.org> <20050503210747.0401b795@edune.lan> In-Reply-To: <20050503210747.0401b795@edune.lan> 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; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200505032225.28898.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 19e11ada-3475-41fc-a6fd-164fec1eb74e X-Archives-Hash: 2ac00711b82eb914d6bedd6f3ae59123 On Tuesday 03 May 2005 10:07 pm, Yuri Vasilevski wrote: > I'm going on vacation tomorrow for a week, and after that > i can try to write something. But the problem i see is that > the way I did it, it involves so many steps in hacking many > different things that I'm not sure that it is a good idea > to write about something so unpolished. > > But if you want, and there is interest in it we can try > to make it more functional. i would be interested :) > > i wasnt able to figure out how to make softgun work nicely :/ > > The way i did it was: > > 1.- Patch linux 2.6.8.1 (it was the one used at that time > by the developer of softgun) > 2.- Modify this patched version to register more that 64MB > of ram and remove watchdog initialization. > (i can try to (and plan to) make a patch for softgun's > patch to linux 2.6.10) this would be good to send to the softgun maintainer > 3.- Modify uclibc's build root to build soft-float gcc and > uclibc with the patches from that bug report. hmm, uclibc's buildroot should be fine with softfloat ... if it is not and if you can summarize what you needed to do here, i have commit access to uClibc so i can fix up buildroot > 4.- boot to softguns image, mount over nfs my root and > chroot to it. and there build python and portage by > hand. (after that i found a better way to do this step > outlined in: > http://dev.gentoo.org/~solar/uclibc/uclibc.txt) i recall not being able to make the networking happy ... but i probably just did something stupid :) > 5.- In this chrooted environment bootstrap gentoo. > 6.- emerge system > 7.- emerge openssh vixie-cron syslog-ng devfsd ... > 8.- build another custom kernel to boot from nfs, > with devfs, preemptive and some another modifications. > 9.- boot to my arm gentoo directly over nfs i have some real armeb hardware (thanks to the nslu2 project for the donation !) so i already have this stuff working :) -mike -- gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org mailing list