* Re: [gentoo-embedded] frontend needed to make Gentoo/embedded a viability
@ 2006-08-20 11:30 99% ` Mike Frysinger
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From: Mike Frysinger @ 2006-08-20 11:30 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-embedded
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On Saturday 12 August 2006 22:38, Yuri Vasilevski wrote:
> Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> 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
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
mostly have, just need a more user friendly interface
image generation isnt that big of a deal ... that's like running
`mkfs.<whatever>` 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 rather
than reinventing the wheel
-mike
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