Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: Daniel Armyr <daniel.armyr@××××.se>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Gentoo Embedded Linux on Linksys Blue Boxes
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 06:28:29
Message-Id: 20050424082831.1283a41f@beech.glades.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Gentoo Embedded Linux on Linksys Blue Boxes by Ned Ludd
1 > These great little mipsel devices use a proprietary wireless driver
2 > module and an older kernel. So to make the solution complete at Gentoo
3 > one would require a kernel that was able to load the linksys module as
4 > well as meet the security standards for a kernel. That's where these
5 > devices and all known public sources for them fall a bit short.
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7 But as I understand it, the OpenWRT comes with complete kernel sources. As such, one should be able to just export them from OpenWRT and use them with Gentoo under the name wrt-sources. Am I wrong?
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9 However, what has stopped me from trying gentoo on my little box is that it seems gentoo-embedded is geared towards devices with storage in the 100s of megabytes which the WRT does not have.
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