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Thank you tommy, that's exactly what I was looking for !! :) |
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On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 10:39 -0400, Tommy B wrote: |
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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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