From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PYDYQ-0005vD-6R for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 08:08:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C6CBBE0799 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 08:08:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from foo.stuge.se (foo.stuge.se [213.88.146.6]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EEE0BE0740 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2010 07:17:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 30397 invoked by uid 501); 30 Dec 2010 07:17:26 -0000 Message-ID: <20101230071726.30396.qmail@stuge.se> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 08:17:26 +0100 From: Peter Stuge To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Some good words for Gentoo embedded? Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org References: <4D016015.2030200@blue-labs.org> <20101230065248.GE10596@nibiru.local> 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-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101230065248.GE10596@nibiru.local> X-Archives-Salt: 53c1f383-4972-4142-9a09-ae70b6807fb5 X-Archives-Hash: 98c8b5c5c3d101a550b8d61cb474342c Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > i use gentoo on my embedded because i find it incredibly easier to > > get a working toolchain, build a $root filesystem, and copy it to > > something like flash and i'm all set. .. > The drawback of it (and similar systems which originate from mainline > distros) is that they're limited to relatively "large" devices Hm? Define "large" ? Does the definition include anything capable of having a root filesystem? > and tend to be challenged by the fact that the toolsets originally > hadn't be designed for that purpose. Bare metal? Certainly. We know this fact very well in coreboot, for example. But also other projects designed to run on bare metal (such as open source ARM projects) will know this well. > On the other hand, they heavily benefit from the large amount of > already ported packages. The bare-metal projects not so much. They only need a single package, and I think something like portage is way overkill.. //Peter