On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:40 PM, wireless <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> On 10/05/11 14:05, Steev Klimaszewski wrote:
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>>> Anyone set up embedded Gentoo on an ARM (A8 or A9)
>>> based netbook? (
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>> I do, on my EfikaMX smartbook, the only caveats being that some parts
>> are non-free, though I have sources, so I need to re-write the ebuilds
>> and build the tarballs for it still. Â I've been installing gnome 3.2
>> on there, so it's going a bit slow at the moment. Â One caveat of using
>> a "modern" desktop-y system is that consolekit seems to need
>> CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL which doesn't exist for ARM devices yet.
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> Ah, this is good news, I was just looking at the A8 version.
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> Do you have minicom working on the usb ports (using an FTDI
> usb-2-serial chip?).
Being as I work for Genesi (see my sig) I have a debug board, when I
need it (technically I don't since I had to give mine up but if I
needed to I could get one from someone else in the company) worst case
scenario, if something bad happens I can boot from an SD card and fix
it.
> Have you cobbled together some sort of wired ethernet
> (usb-2-ethernet) of some type or do you just use
> wireless Ethernet?
I use wifi on the smartbook, but the default config for the 2.6.31
kernel in use has support for all usb->ethernet devices.
> You gonna put a doc into the hadbook like trimslice?
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I thought there was one floating around somewhere. Eventually I
might, but I don't have as much free time as I would like, and I
dislike xml, so if I did, I'd make a text file and shoot it off to
armin76 or nightmorph or someone to make it all pretty for the web.
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> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/?part=4&chap=10
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> I'm itching to do this, but, I wanted to wait on the A15 chip
> (Omap5). Alas I may jump in before that A15 is shipping....
Being as our company uses Freescale chips, I'm looking forward to the
mx6, although it will probably be a while before anything comes out in
the consumer space based on it. Quad core will be nice.
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> James
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Best Regards,
Steev
Steev Klimaszewski <steev@genesi-usa.com>
Senior Software Engineer, Genesi USA, Inc.