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On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 02:24, Rafael Diniz wrote: |
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> Hello all, |
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> I'm new in list and I'd like to know if gentoo embedded will run in 386 and |
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> 486 with low memory resources, because I think glibc systems are too heavy |
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> for older machines. |
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A complete swap out of glibc for uClibc for the embedded environment is |
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one of the goals of this project, however unfortunately the uClibc |
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maintainers have removed the old useful uClibc wrappers at >0.9.21 which |
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nows means we have to recompile the whole freaking toolchain. This has |
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caused many problems for the uClibc users of the world. But for whatever |
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reasons Erik Andersee is not switching back to the toolchain wrappers so |
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we get to figure it all out and try and make it work within our existing |
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build environment. |
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> I'd like to "save" some older and very cheap machines like 386s and 486s to |
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> use then as standalone workstations, to teach, use and donate then for for |
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> multiple porpuses like teach programing, teach using email clients, irc, www, |
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> icq, etc, here in Brazil. |
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For the most part you need nothing special here at all. Just grab a |
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standard basic x86 stage1 and install as normal. The stages will be |
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reconfigured for either i486 or i386 by default which is exactly what |
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you want. |
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If you have alot of these boxes chances are you will want to do your |
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bootstrapping on another one of your more powerful x86 gentoo boxes to |
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speed up your compile times or even PXE boot and nfsmount. |
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> Will be possible to use gentoo embedded in that? |
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The Embedded Gentoo project has nothing you can just plug and play with |
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right now. The project now currently consist of a few tools that are |
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being developed by other developers at gentoo such as Kumba's crossdev |
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util or mutex's embedded catalyst work. |
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A uclibc-buildroot does exist for building the uclibc toolchain but it's |
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completely missing include paths when you try to compile something. |
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This can be seen if you trying anything that uses #include <blah.h> |
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otherwise it compiles an 'int main() { return 0; }' just fine. |
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If you have some spare time you could try and help solve this problem if |
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you wanted a pure gentoo built uClibc toolchain with profile support. |
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Rob McMullen has a pretty nice uClibc with Gentoo Linux HOWTO at his |
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site. http://flipturn.org/uclibc/ but I'm not how sure up2date it is |
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right now. |
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> Thanx, |
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> Rafael Diniz |
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