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wireless wrote: |
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> Well, I got a alix.2D3+b board with an onboard Geode LX. |
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> I intend to set up embedded Gentoo on this system, |
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> eventually. |
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If you like you can also look at coreboot, which supports the board. |
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> Here is my proposed make.conf (generic x86) settings: |
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> CHOST="i586-PC-linux-gnu" |
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Note: Make pc lowercase instead. |
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> CFLAGS="-Os -march=i586 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" |
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> CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" |
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> USE="-* -nls ncurses ssl crypt berkdb perl pcre \ |
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> python readline zlib bzip2 nptl nptlonly syslog " |
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> Maybe add these flags {fpu vme de pse tsc msr cx8 pge} |
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> or will that be redundant? |
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> Any refinements or suggestions that will work across |
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> the broad range of x86 machines are most welcome. |
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What I do for any build is look carefully at the profile and override |
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any things I don't like in there. It might make sense to just create |
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a new profile. |
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> Your comments and observations are most welcome. |
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Not much to comment on for now. I guess you've seen these pages about |
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Gentoo on ALIX: |
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http://www.twam.info/tag/alix3d3 |
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(Note that ALIX.2 and ALIX.3 boards are almost completely identical |
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from a software point of view.) |
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//Peter |
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