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On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Christoph Spielmann <spielc@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Well welcome to gentoo on the freerunner! |
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Thanks! |
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> Well there's not just one package you need to merge to get the phone |
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> working. There are actually a few more choices you have to make before you |
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> can even think of getting gentoo on the phone. |
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> 1. Do you want to cross-compile or compile natively? Both have pro and cons, |
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> i personally use the cross-compilation path but i know some ppl that are |
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> compiling natively on the phone |
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I tried to do this without cross compile, set up simple qemu and |
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tried to make stage3. |
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This took my about 5 days with my current computer... So I give it up. |
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Cross compile is better choice but many packages have issues... I fix |
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them one by |
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one. |
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> 2. glibc or something smaller like uclibc or even dietlibc? |
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What do you recommend? I thought of using glibc to avoid many future problems. |
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> 3. What de/wm do you want to use? lxde? e17? kde? Just like everything else |
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> concerning gentoo you have a ton of choices and possibilities |
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What do you recommend? I think kde is too large and complex... |
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I am open to any suggestion. |
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> 4. What gui do you want to use for phone-related tasks? shr-stuff? zone? Or |
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> even something else? At the moment we're only supporting fso-framework for |
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> the more low-level stuff and shr or zhone for the frontend. There are other |
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> possibilities tho (hackable1 is something that comes to my mind almost |
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> instantly, or qtopia). |
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I start with whatever you support and go from there... So I guess shr is |
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the right chice? |
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> 5. probably some more stuff but i think that these are the most important |
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> things to think about |
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>> Can anyone send me a list of packages as an example? |
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> I've attached a list of packages i've currently installed on the phone. Keep |
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> in mind that you probably need some more/other stuff but it should get you |
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> started! |
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Thank you!!! |
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It looks like the whole tree... Can you please send only the "world" part? |
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Also, do you have special /etc settings people might be intrested? |
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This will be interesting week-end :) |
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Alon. |
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