[gentoo-embedded] New board success story on embedded gentoo

[David Thomas <davelists2@peoplemerge.com>]

To the Gentoo mailing list:

I'd like to report gentoo running successfully on a new piece of hardware!
It is an ARM Xscale PXA255 based custom board developed by a masters 
student Will Holland at San Diego State University.

This board features the following:
*  ARM-based Intel PXA-255
*  64MB Flash Memory 128 MB RAM
*  Xilinx Spartan FPGA
*  Touchscreen LCD
*  Serial, USB, PCMCIA, 10/100 Ethernet

The intended application is a Stereo Vision Development System, using
stepper motor controlled cameras to track moving objects.  It may also be
used in a research and classroom setting.

What did it take to get it working?  Not much.  (Thanks to the hard work
of our team, the bootloader and kernel were already working)

*  Locating the stage3 tarball took the longest.  Of course I eventually
found it in the mirror, experimental tree.  Obvious place in retrospect.
We're using the stage3-arm-uclibc-softfloat-20050811.

*  Commented out unnecessary fstab entries, our nfsmounted rootfs is 
coded in the kernel config. 

*  Copied a passwd from an account on a different machine.

*  Turned on serial console in inittab.

That's it!  We booted directly into it from there.  The whole process, my
first time doing embedded gentoo, took about 20 minutes.

Good job putting together a very nice package.
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