Re: [gentoo-embedded] Gentoo Embedded Linux on Linksys Blue Boxes

[Ned Ludd]

On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 08:28 +0200, Daniel Armyr wrote:
> > These great little mipsel devices use a proprietary wireless driver
> > module and an older kernel. So to make the solution complete at Gentoo
> > one would require a kernel that was able to load the linksys module as
> > well as meet the security standards for a kernel. That's where these
> > devices and all known public sources for them fall a bit short.
>
> But as I understand it, the OpenWRT comes with complete kernel sources. As such, one should be able to just export them from OpenWRT and use them with Gentoo under the name wrt-sources. Am I wrong?

Sure you could do that local and we may do that after mbm's experimental tree goes into production.

> However, what has stopped me from trying gentoo on my little box is that it seems gentoo-embedded is geared towards devices with storage in the 100s of megabytes which the WRT does not have.

I have no idea where you get the 100M figure from. It's wrong.
Smallest bootable system I've built while I've been here is 644K minus
the kernel.

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