[gentoo-embedded] gumstix anyone?

[gentoo-embedded] gumstix anyone?

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

I am getting a couple of Gumstix small computers, and I'm wondering if 
there are any Gentoo embedded folks working with them. So far, I've 
downloaded their software development tools and, apart from needing some 
GCC juggling and a Ruby version conflict, everything seems to be 
working. I'll know more once I get the real hardware, though.

What I found interesting is that the Gumstix "buildroot" environment 
contains a package called "portage". Is this a Gentoo Portage as we know 
it, or something else called "portage"? These are fascinating little 
gizmos -- a 400 MHz XScale CPU, 64 MB of RAM, 16 MB of flash, two serial 
ports, a USB port, a bluetooth adapter and a slot for up to a GB of MMC 
memory in a box the size of a pack of gum.

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http://borasky-research.blogspot.com/

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Re: [gentoo-embedded] gumstix anyone?

[Benjamin Burns]

I second the question, as I'm curious as well.  However -- I think it 
might be more appropriate/worthwhile to ask about the buildroot portage 
package on the gumstix-users mailing list.  You can subscribe to it at 
http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=98784 -- if you don't wish to 
subscribe (it's a quite busy list) I can pose the question there and 
forward the response (if any) back to you individually, or to the entire 
list.

-Ben

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> I am getting a couple of Gumstix small computers, and I'm wondering if 
> there are any Gentoo embedded folks working with them. So far, I've 
> downloaded their software development tools and, apart from needing 
> some GCC juggling and a Ruby version conflict, everything seems to be 
> working. I'll know more once I get the real hardware, though.
>
> What I found interesting is that the Gumstix "buildroot" environment 
> contains a package called "portage". Is this a Gentoo Portage as we 
> know it, or something else called "portage"? These are fascinating 
> little gizmos -- a 400 MHz XScale CPU, 64 MB of RAM, 16 MB of flash, 
> two serial ports, a USB port, a bluetooth adapter and a slot for up to 
> a GB of MMC memory in a box the size of a pack of gum.
>
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Re: [gentoo-embedded] gumstix anyone?

[Mike Frysinger]

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On Tuesday 14 November 2006 10:17, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> I am getting a couple of Gumstix small computers, and I'm wondering if
> there are any Gentoo embedded folks working with them.

i started to buy a Gumstix but then decided to buy some NSLU2s/Lofts instead

> What I found interesting is that the Gumstix "buildroot" environment
> contains a package called "portage". Is this a Gentoo Portage as we know
> it, or something else called "portage"?

gumstix just copies their buildroot env from the original one that was spawned 
from uclibc:
http://buildroot.uclibc.org/
they include their own fixes on top of it i imagine

i have commit access to the original buildroot and ive added portage to that 
back when i was using buildroot to bootstrap Gentoo/embedded ... but since 
Gentoo can be used to bootstrap Gentoo/embedded, i dont really bother with 
buildroot anymore

considering Gumstix is simply a little endian arm, there's no reason you cant 
take existing little endian arm stages and use those on the board ... you'd 
prob still have to get your kernel from them though
-mike

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Re: [gentoo-embedded] gumstix anyone?

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Benjamin Burns wrote:
> I second the question, as I'm curious as well.  However -- I think it 
> might be more appropriate/worthwhile to ask about the buildroot 
> portage package on the gumstix-users mailing list.  You can subscribe 
> to it at http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=98784 -- if you don't 
> wish to subscribe (it's a quite busy list) I can pose the question 
> there and forward the response (if any) back to you individually, or 
> to the entire list.
>
> -Ben
>
> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>> I am getting a couple of Gumstix small computers, and I'm wondering 
>> if there are any Gentoo embedded folks working with them. So far, 
>> I've downloaded their software development tools and, apart from 
>> needing some GCC juggling and a Ruby version conflict, everything 
>> seems to be working. I'll know more once I get the real hardware, 
>> though.
>>
>> What I found interesting is that the Gumstix "buildroot" environment 
>> contains a package called "portage". Is this a Gentoo Portage as we 
>> know it, or something else called "portage"? These are fascinating 
>> little gizmos -- a 400 MHz XScale CPU, 64 MB of RAM, 16 MB of flash, 
>> two serial ports, a USB port, a bluetooth adapter and a slot for up 
>> to a GB of MMC memory in a box the size of a pack of gum.
>>
I'm already on the list ... I was saving the question until I had a 
chance to look at the source.

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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, FBG, AB, PTA, PGS, MS, MNLP, NST, ACMC(P)
http://borasky-research.blogspot.com/

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