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I like this list more than blogs and I'm in one of those sharing kinda |
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moods. |
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So every single day is a new adventure in the embedded world. I learn a |
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bit more and I share a bit more every day (mostly via IRC vs this list). |
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It's a fun an exciting time to be apart of Gentoo. |
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Anyway I geared up for winter and got 4 new embedded boards based mostly |
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around the sc324XX series (aka OpenMoko CPU) and a stk500(AVR). So |
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hopefully our handbooks board files will fill up a bit more.. |
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We have a new dev in training on the embedded side named Angelo Arrifano |
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aka miknix that originated with the linwizard project who will be |
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joining our team to help out with PDA/CellPhone/GPE/OpenMoko alike |
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things. He started out as what Gentoo calls an 'AT' for amd64. But it |
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turns out he was one of the masterminds behind the porting of the |
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HTC-wizard to linux. So he is much more useful over here. It was during |
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the porting of the wizard that I noticed his skills and attention to |
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detail. Often finding and coming up with better fixes than me. So I |
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quite look fwd to him joining our team soon. |
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Crossdev is known to have a few problems building recently. Bails out on |
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headers on pretty much every arch. There are two workarounds for this |
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that I know of at the moment. One is to hack the ebuild and add |
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--disable-headers and the other is to simply let crossdev fail. Then |
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emerge -1O cross-$CHOST/gcc && crossdev -t $CHOST while making sure |
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nsl/iconv/locales are disabled. I'm sure spanky will fix that soon if he |
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has not already. |
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If you still have difficulty. There is http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/ |
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which provides binary pkgs for a lot of chosts and cross toolchains. |
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Is gentoo-embedded satisfying your basic/common needs? What more |
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can/should we do as a multi arch distro? |
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Random Good links: |
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http://www.sparkfun.com |
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http://www.soekris.com |
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http://www.elinux.org |
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http://www.lynxmotion.com |
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http://www.jameco.com |
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http://www.maxim-ic.com |
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http://www.digikey.com |
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http://www.arduino.cc |
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http://www.nslu2-linux.org |
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http://wiki.openembedded.net |
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http://embedded.gentoo.org |
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https://everything.else... |
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Ned Ludd <solar/gentoo.org> |
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