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 1GElVs-0006eg-MP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 11:30:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7KBTn4I024709; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 11:29:49 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7KBTmMJ007343 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 11:29:48 GMT Received: from home.wh0rd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C6CD644B3 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 11:29:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 24289 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2006 07:24:20 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 20 Aug 2006 07:24:20 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] frontend needed to make Gentoo/embedded a viability Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 07:30:50 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <200608121950.39655.vapier@gentoo.org> <20060812213832.48e03f9a@dukebook.lan> In-Reply-To: <20060812213832.48e03f9a@dukebook.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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart4842722.v5K4tYsVcM"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200608200730.51736.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: aac02628-b396-4a0b-9a41-93eaa418cd22 X-Archives-Hash: 799ca4e88a836c27450cd32cef26bc33 --nextPart4842722.v5K4tYsVcM Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 12 August 2006 22:38, Yuri Vasilevski wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > so i was tooling along the road thinking about what it would take for > > people to sit down and use Gentoo/embedded for the target ... > > currently we have misc ways of doing this by hand (install > > mask/etc...), but it tends to be error prone and it requires the end > > user to know more than they should about the portage environment > > > > what would help here is a frontend ... something like uClinux or Open > > Embedded where a menu system allows the user to select the packages > > to install into the target image and when they're done, they simply > > type 'make' ... wait a bit and they're left with images that they can > > take and flash onto the target board > > The way I see this, is that this is covered by buildroot, so it would be > duplicating things at some level to do this with gentoo. yes, we'd be replacing everything buildroot does that Gentoo doesnt already= =20 do ... buildroot is really: - cross-compiler selection / build - package selection / build - image generation now, we already have the first part with crossdev ... the second part we=20 mostly have, just need a more user friendly interface image generation isnt that big of a deal ... that's like running=20 `mkfs.` on a directory > > so really, a friendly frontend for the user to select the > > characteristics of the system, and then a backend to take that config > > and use emerge to build everything and generate an image ... would > > make it easy to create stock board descriptions too ... > > But I think it would be really nice if we could teach catalyst to > generate embedded images from some "board" spec files. > And once this works, a fancy spec file editor with a nice gui could be > written if needed. we could take that route of teaching catalyst how to do cross-compiling rat= her=20 than reinventing the wheel =2Dmike --nextPart4842722.v5K4tYsVcM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUAROhH60FjO5/oN/WBAQKe7Q//U/ao4sXqPfQO5txj81WYCDwqVmb6z0wA xQY1JMmSzWC5RVM4Kq2w1E2yzw1QOTeNPjKQ5Xx2abQaWJJPQ1Ds6wUwlmXWDu3K 5L5diL8L78JGkkoXi/03NzKrQ/cjqOcMCBzP4a9u+M+z+w7GU9dVEfwKRLtxoRJ9 +Cr8UWRnv8orbpis2lTTllahxm5b74Q6xlXF7U7z+L8FwHQ7jgGCWpxDsjQKdLOq e+r1bdPXE07n/1sVvaZ6NzEcGG2hx9/udrY6gb4Gfcw2J2dk8rIZYnoLl5SVGzJ5 JjqPBaqPoH+lAaATnGPpK2sZYRCWjJUkfBQiNjSZgt9w3BpcWBbyl3v+cHOKrdwN xiZfm5kAgsdWnGU2oIK3BnGjtZZZ7tCPcnGwJe/OPGb9la2DNuDKClYBAhPqylLA ixyWkAL2dNdKq3g09OtnYJsFbFPdrUn6FrCf9M3RNCfFGvrlmu7v34RTbRdZy7Sa 5JF0QXtIIJUWK7/XtnAWpf75NuvaA6PCVrAoBWXD4WkzouWloeywkqjQa0RmroRm 1qVTT5M9CZ3Xc0XDbIFHgvlBkeqJdnLWc+QhGFCEojd43vgOczSSnsolUdyhY2eX E/kd1DbEEJvy/LlFLZk18SP0/+qtyWuHJzbSCkDbXglaL9R/Ugyu5kzupLDj7SuQ hWs+chOPWEw= =tmZ4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4842722.v5K4tYsVcM-- -- gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org mailing list