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>From: Joshua ChaitinPollak <jpollak@×××××××××××.com> |
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>Reply-To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o |
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>To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o |
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>Subject: [gentoo-embedded] Embedded Howto comments |
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>Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 19:22:02 -0400 |
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>I just wanted to comment that when you follow the 0.8 (or Gentoo-ized |
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>howto), it directs you to use an older profile. |
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>When you try and emerge, portage warns that the profile is deprecated. If |
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>you use the new profile: |
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>uclibc/x86/2005.1/2.4 |
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>Building the system works very well and everything went smoothly. When |
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>using this profile, I had no trouble with the following: |
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>1) No workarounds for bootstrapping or emerging the system |
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>2) The kernel compiles without trouble (no intl.h issue) |
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this issue is typical for all kernel > 2.6.12, so it's normal you don't get |
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problems with a 2.4 kernel |
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>This profile seems to have the 2.6.x kernels masked though, so I'm using |
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>2.4.30, which is what you get when you emerge vanilla-sources. |
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>Anyway, that's been working very smoothly for me. |
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>I'm having to do a PXE/DHCP/TFTP/NFS boot to bootstrap my embedded device. |
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>If I wrote up a bit on how to go about doing this, would someone integrate |
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>this into the Gentoo Embedded Howto? |
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>-Josh |
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>Joshua ChaitinPollak |
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>Software Engineer |
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>Kiva Systems |
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