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To the Gentoo mailing list: |
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I'd like to report gentoo running successfully on a new piece of hardware! |
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It is an ARM Xscale PXA255 based custom board developed by a masters |
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student Will Holland at San Diego State University. |
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This board features the following: |
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* ARM-based Intel PXA-255 |
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* 64MB Flash Memory 128 MB RAM |
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* Xilinx Spartan FPGA |
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* Touchscreen LCD |
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* Serial, USB, PCMCIA, 10/100 Ethernet |
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The intended application is a Stereo Vision Development System, using |
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stepper motor controlled cameras to track moving objects. It may also be |
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used in a research and classroom setting. |
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What did it take to get it working? Not much. (Thanks to the hard work |
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of our team, the bootloader and kernel were already working) |
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* Locating the stage3 tarball took the longest. Of course I eventually |
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found it in the mirror, experimental tree. Obvious place in retrospect. |
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We're using the stage3-arm-uclibc-softfloat-20050811. |
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* Commented out unnecessary fstab entries, our nfsmounted rootfs is |
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coded in the kernel config. |
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* Copied a passwd from an account on a different machine. |
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* Turned on serial console in inittab. |
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That's it! We booted directly into it from there. The whole process, my |
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first time doing embedded gentoo, took about 20 minutes. |
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Good job putting together a very nice package. |
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