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On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 21:43 -0400, Anthony Russello wrote: |
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> Hi All, |
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> I'm working on a base layout for an embedded system based on the |
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> Freescale 8241 chip, and was wondering what might be available in the |
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> world of gentoo for that purpose. |
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> Here are the requirements we've laid out: |
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> Read/write /etc (jffs2 filesystem) |
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> /var is a ramdisk, /tmp is a symlink to /var/tmp |
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> / is read only otherwise (cramfs filesystem) |
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You could go with squashfs here and save quite a bit more space. |
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> As far as apps, we basically just need: |
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> boa |
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boa is nice. note also busybox has an httpd that's cgi aware. |
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> busybox |
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By default our busybox is built with allsysconfig this enables most tools. |
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> samba 2.2.x (samba 3 requires additional libraries in the final image) |
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> sysvinit |
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I'm pretty sure you don't really need sysvinit with this kind of setup. |
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The init provided by busybox itself should be adequately sufficient. |
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> sqlite |
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> quota-tools |
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> sys-utils |
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Whats sys-utils? |
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> e2fsprogs |
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For mke2fs/tune2fs? |
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For jffs2 your going to want/need the sys-fs/mtd package as well. |
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> Now, we created one a while back using an axis chip, and they had a full |
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> development package that we just modified as needed. In the end we |
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> wound up with an image that had about 2 MB left over of the eight. |
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> RIght now, we're kind of starting fresh with an 8241 based system, so I |
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> wanted to get some input on what recommendations you might have. |
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> I've already been playing around with a custom thing from the ground up. |
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> But just in case, I'd like to see if there is something else we could |
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> look into. |
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i think that's how most of us got here. It's fun todo the super custom |
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ground up system for a little while. But it's nice to walk away and come |
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back 6 months or a year and not have to update every |
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> I've been using gentoo for quite some time now (since the 1.4 days) but |
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> I haven't been following the gentoo embedded list for the most part. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Anthony |
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