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Since we are committing to uClibc (I have no complaints and am in complete |
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agreement, except....) that raises a new issue. Well, not entirely new but an |
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issue nonetheless. Familiar is now trying to krack down on developers and |
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contributors to provide links to their source code used to make their current |
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binary programs. The downside is that without the special patches and what |
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not, alot of useful and great programs can not be ported readily to uClibc. |
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Not saying that this is an impossibility, just saying that how do we design |
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the ebuild to port current gentoo applications to fit and function in our |
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embedded environments. Not all PDAs have the same screen size and memory |
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constraints as noted in an earlier post. As memory is an important factor, it |
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shouldn't be a penalty for those with bigger memory and displays. There |
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should be a tool that works like genmenu, in which where you use this program |
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(let us call it "genembedconf") to set the parameters for your particular |
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build of a embedded system (ie the HP iPAQ H3955 is a 400MHz Intel XScale |
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PXA250 hwhich has 32MB flash ROM, 64MB SDRAM, and 240x320 16-bit display.) |
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We would want it to be compiled for a pxa and have all apps be ported to a |
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display size of 240x320 with rotation capability. On the other hand, Sharp |
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Zaurus C-7[56]0 display is 640x480 with 128MB of storage (of which 64MB is |
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always for storage), and it's hardware processor is a Intel XScale PXA255. |
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Then, of course, there is the ARM. So creating an gentoo embedded |
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configuration tool I think would simplify creating cross-compiling toolchains |
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and target-specific compiled code. I hope I conveyed my thoughts clearly |
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enough so that everyone understands what I am talking about. As I have been |
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up for far too long to mention and am now in dire need of some much needed |
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sleep. |
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