Re: [gentoo-embedded] openmoko overlay?

["Ângelo Miguel Arrifano" <miknix@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:25:43 -0400
Christopher Friedt <chrisfriedt@gmail.com> wrote:

> Cool - I'll check it out.
> 
> The moko is an arm920t core (armv4t arch), but I believe that the 
> official packages aren't even compiled with the EABI. The core itself is 
> exactly the same as that of the TS-72xx boards, which I've worked with 
> extensively. The packaging, pinouts, and on-chip peripherals are really 
> all that are different, so creating a toolchain is a non-issue.

The binary packages available here
(http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/embedded/linwizard/) are targeted for 
armv5te-softfloat-linux-gnueabi
> 
> The /proc/cpuinfo component of the FreeRunner's kernel is slightly 
> bjorked - through some odd patches they have mashed board info into the 
> cpuinfo structure somehow instead of the cleaner /proc/SBC/info structure.
> 
> I should have no problem taking my current instructions from the 
> gentoo-wiki and editing them to provide info for the openmoko. U-Boot, 
> and the usb-loader utility (dfu-util) are the only components that I 
> have little experience with. Although it was reasonably easy enough to 
> load the om2008.8 image.
> 
> So I guess, in the long run, I'll be aiming to provide a kernel patchset 
> specifically for the freerunner hardware in the portage tree, as well as 
> a toolchain patchset for the samsung sc324XX SoC that the openmoko folks 
> are using. It should be possible to build everything that the openmoko 
> folks provide in any of their images, given a list of packages & the 
> patchsets, but using the (far better IMHO) ebuild build system as 
> opposed to bitbake.
> 
> Nedd & Angelo - with the PDA-centric overlay ( & binary packages? ) that 
> you guys are creating, are there any plans in the works for making a 
> (graphical?) package manager app for mobile devices? I'm using 
> portage-utils pretty extensively these days for a push-ing distributed 
> package manager, which my boss has me unfortunately implementing as a 
> grails web-app, but I'd be very interested in collaborating on something 
> like that, gtk-based, ncurses-based, written in Java for all I care, etc.

Yes, we have plans to change the package managers available in
{GPE,openmoko,...} to support our .tbzs instead of ipkg.
For now, I'm just more worried in getting a emergeable openmoko and GPE
tree into the overlay.

-- Angelo Arrifano
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris
> 
> shawnzier@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 10:44:28PM +0200, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=C2ngelo_Miguel_Arrifano_ wrote:
> >> On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:02:52 -0400
> >> Christopher Friedt <chrisfriedt@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Is anyone else on this list contributing to the openmoko codebase? Does 
> >>> anyone else have a FIC handheld?
> >>>
> >>> I just got a freerunner a couple of days ago and threw om2008.8 on it. 
> >>> The QT interface is pretty nice and I'd like to start contributing some 
> >>> code, but I'd rather use Gentoo's build system instead of the OE build 
> >>> system.
> >>>
> >>> Is anyone aware of an existing overlay ?
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>>
> >>> Chris
> >>>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Me and Ned Ludd are working on a embedded overlay mostly for PDAs.
> >> The overlay is located here:
> >> http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/embedded/linwizard/overlay/
> >> The overlay includes some fixed ebuilds for cross-compiling base
> >> dependencies. There is also a GPE tree there that should be emergeable.
> >> More recently, we started to work on openmoko ebuilds. It's not finished
> >> yet.
> >>
> >> We also provide binary packages for ARMV5TE-JL here:
> >> http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/embedded/linwizard/
> >>
> >> I don't own a freerunner, but I can't test most of it on my HTC wizard.
> >>
> > I have one and would be happy to test. Thanks for the work on this. 
> > 
>