From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KbeZ0-0000LK-BG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:53:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 74F5AE03C5; Fri, 5 Sep 2008 16:53:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.171]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 180EFE03C5 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2008 16:53:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o4so189387uge.39 for ; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:53:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:cc:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ePHQoH62gxlLnddLkBFlac0NlXwf4hThiG1TAvq+Rfs=; b=SiNWGRzN2czueiAZZuBg4CRnyr8/W+6hENz07pDKDQNHzdHfooJRDt5K7ZM4a4ruaR fNoEfwhCG6qD9LKGbuiCDN33QzrA36IRfGQozjkb8bd12p2h5WqC51wU9mkL2xdFMJ7X pqJ8x50Wmg/fx3ox9fFAZ2h99xQ1PVuY6VlqQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references :organization:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=v69mjy2ts9OX071sihjr4skJuR+3dPiHxiMY3s25f1lB/U0dHB1e8/yY+Mkkk5j0Ls kEQWsRiIbfJeH/EY2NYCNvFfo6MgP3BH/nPgJ47kzKpY7hlZP8ULbHFldK7Cz+qNLKwy v1c6ULyxlaFpcrwk/eau+AJdtTrbjC6GtBgM0= Received: by 10.67.121.14 with SMTP id y14mr819228ugm.10.1220633614096; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:53:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ( [81.193.89.6]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o24sm1898775ugd.34.2008.09.05.09.53.32 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:53:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 17:53:37 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=C2ngelo?= Miguel Arrifano To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Christopher Friedt Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] openmoko overlay? Message-Id: <20080905175337.145019af.miknix@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <48C13357.8050004@gmail.com> References: <48BEC33C.30501@gmail.com> <20080903224428.54750e89.miknix@gmail.com> <20080903214610.GA5820@mbp> <48C13357.8050004@gmail.com> Organization: IT Student at UBI, Portugal; Gentoo Linux AMD64 Arch Tester X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5b65681d-eed3-4d88-b540-4cd3a1a138d1 X-Archives-Hash: e4b1f50bfb53a8e04e4830a5ed69026d On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:25:43 -0400 Christopher Friedt 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 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. > > >