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On Tuesday 14 November 2006 10:17, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: |
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> I am getting a couple of Gumstix small computers, and I'm wondering if |
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> there are any Gentoo embedded folks working with them. |
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i started to buy a Gumstix but then decided to buy some NSLU2s/Lofts instead |
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> What I found interesting is that the Gumstix "buildroot" environment |
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> contains a package called "portage". Is this a Gentoo Portage as we know |
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> it, or something else called "portage"? |
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gumstix just copies their buildroot env from the original one that was spawned |
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from uclibc: |
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http://buildroot.uclibc.org/ |
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they include their own fixes on top of it i imagine |
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i have commit access to the original buildroot and ive added portage to that |
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back when i was using buildroot to bootstrap Gentoo/embedded ... but since |
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Gentoo can be used to bootstrap Gentoo/embedded, i dont really bother with |
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buildroot anymore |
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considering Gumstix is simply a little endian arm, there's no reason you cant |
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take existing little endian arm stages and use those on the board ... you'd |
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prob still have to get your kernel from them though |
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-mike |