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Kristian Benoit wrote: |
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>Thanks, but I'm still wondering what are de differences. Like what make |
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>gentoo-embedded what it is and what make's open-embedded what it is. |
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I'm a dev on the nslu2-linux project. It uses open-embedded to build 3rd |
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party firmware to reflash the Linksys NSLU2 NAS with custom firmware. |
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Open-embeddeed is a combination of a tool (bitbake) and meta-data (kinda |
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like ebuilds) focused on building open-source embedded systems. It's |
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evolved over the last several years and is very embedded focused. It |
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does many things well, however, it is somewhat complex and not nearly as |
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encompasing as Gentoo. There are a couple thousand packages in the |
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open-embedded repository, but nothing like Gentoo. It is also in a very |
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high state of flux and things are often broken because of all the |
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change. The user community is very technical and expects people to dig |
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into the source, patches and python scripts/code that run things. |
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Finally, open-embedded is libc agnostic, does a lot of |
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cross-compilation well and builds everything as a normal user. |
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Gentoo-embedded is the long process of teaching Gentoo to do the |
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cross-compliation and embedded systems well. Gentoo embedded supports |
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uClibc and has made tremendous progress in the last 6 months. |
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Gentoo-embedded and project like GNAP are really starting to ramp-up. |
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A lot depends on your project, arch, and what your are trying to do and |
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what you like. |
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Each has lots of trade-offs. |
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>Kris |
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>On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 16:23 -0600, Grant Likely wrote: |
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>>Open embedded was inspired by the concepts used by portage. There is |
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>>no link between open-embedded and gentoo-embedded implementations. |
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>>g. |
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>>On 6/8/05, Kristian Benoit <kbenoit@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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>>>I'm wondering what is the differences between open-embedded and |
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>>>gentoo-embedded ? |
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>>>Kristian |
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