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On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 05:13:34PM -0400, Jason Grimm wrote: |
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> Just got on the lists and irc a couple of weeks ago, but I to have noticed |
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> that activity is light. I'm developing on the Soekris 45xx platform with |
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> mini-pci and pcmcia wireless cards and 128 Mb compact flash. I've had luck |
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I believe solar also is doing development in this vein. |
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> with monobsd and debian who both have concentrations in embedded |
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> initiatives. Gentoo is my distro of choice however and I'm anxious to get |
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> something going with that. I've been trying to build from scratch and |
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> possibly adapt some of the disk on chip stuff that's mentioned in this post |
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> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=83983&highlight=compact+flash but |
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Interesting thread, I hadn't seen that before. |
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> am having little success, mostly due to being unfamiliar with ulibc or how |
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> to squeeze down gentoo to fit and force all the heavy read write into |
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> ramdisks or tempfs. |
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> If I had a starting point, like a baselayout or build, |
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> I could report back a lot of information to the group in tailoring for the |
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> Soekris platform, but left to my own it will probably take me months. |
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like I said, baselayout lite is already in portage. All one has to do |
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for a bootable system is baselayout-lite + busybox-1.00-pre8 to get a |
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booting workable filesystem. That's a great place to start. |
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Unfortunatly due to the nature of these embedded systems one has to really |
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know how linux works and what little bits it needs here or there. As |
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a result we won't likely have a 'boxed' software package to deliver. |
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Most likely what will happen is that a framework for easily |
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contstructing embedded software systems will be provided, with some |
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examples to get one started. |
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At this point we have peices of the framework written and working, |
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it's just a matter of adding some features we badly need(like uclibc) |
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and documenting how to use them. |
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> Also, is there anyway to access this mailing lists archives, I didn't see a |
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> link anywhere on the gentoo site to get to the archives. |
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> Thanks, |
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usually I've found gentoo list archives on gmane.org. However I have |
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not seen gentoo embedded there for some reason. I'm sure if you ask |
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somebody could give you the archives. |
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we are desperately in need of more developers as well. Feel free to |
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contribute what you can. |
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