From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
To: Gentoo mailing list <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Will ARM take over the world?
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:00:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN0CFw05PmvSLvmwHNFb_+T3Y3C0GZTtGE+Tj5naJ88r8NK5Lg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121213003358.GA1286@waltdnes.org>
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> Problems with using embedded kernels as a base...
>
> * they use uclibc, which has some APIs that differ from glibc. This
> could break Flash, proprietary video driver binary blobs, and who
> knows what else.
>
> * they generally use busybox symlinks in place of most core utils. The
> busybox versions don't always exactly match the standalone versions.
> You would have to tweak quite a few scripts to fix that.
When you say embedded kernels you may mean something I'm not familiar with,
but I use a patched vanilla kernel with Gentoo on the Beaglebone and it
works great. No uclibc and no busybox.
> It would be interesting to see a "micro" port of Gentoo. But you can
> forget about bringing over KDE-OS, GNOME-OS, or CHROME-OS. If/when
> gnash is finally ready, or HTML replaces Flash, I could see Gentoo
> running with ICEWM or a lightweight desktop like XFCE or LXDE.
I don't think that's right. I have a Pandaboard ES with a dual-core 1.2Ghz
CPU and 1GB RAM and I bet it would run Gnome just fine. Again, maybe
you're referring to something here that I'm not familiar with.
- Grant
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-09 3:25 [gentoo-user] {OT} Will ARM take over the world? Grant
2012-12-09 3:51 ` Michael Mol
2012-12-09 19:24 ` Florian Philipp
2012-12-09 19:53 ` Marc Joliet
2012-12-11 2:00 ` Walter Dnes
2012-12-13 13:45 ` Walter Dnes
2012-12-09 3:52 ` microcai
2012-12-09 8:03 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-12-09 21:44 ` Grant
2012-12-10 5:49 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-12-09 23:23 ` Grant
2012-12-10 3:06 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2012-12-10 5:35 ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2012-12-10 15:46 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2012-12-10 18:18 ` [gentoo-user] " Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-12-10 19:06 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2012-12-10 19:15 ` Michael Mol
2012-12-10 19:33 ` Grant Edwards
2012-12-10 19:38 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-12-10 20:06 ` Grant Edwards
2012-12-10 20:20 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-12-10 20:37 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-12-10 21:10 ` Grant
2012-12-10 21:23 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-12-10 21:33 ` Grant
2012-12-10 21:42 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-12-12 17:05 ` James
2012-12-12 17:26 ` Bruce Hill
2012-12-12 17:55 ` James
2012-12-12 18:40 ` Bruce Hill
2012-12-13 5:02 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-12-13 6:06 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-12-13 14:10 ` Bruce Hill
2012-12-13 0:33 ` Walter Dnes
2012-12-13 1:00 ` Grant [this message]
2012-12-13 11:24 ` Kevin Chadwick
2012-12-13 13:37 ` Walter Dnes
2012-12-13 18:29 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-12-14 17:13 ` Walter Dnes
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