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On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:40 PM, wireless <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 10/05/11 14:05, Steev Klimaszewski wrote: |
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>>> Anyone set up embedded Gentoo on an ARM (A8 or A9) |
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>>> based netbook? ( |
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>> I do, on my EfikaMX smartbook, the only caveats being that some parts |
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>> are non-free, though I have sources, so I need to re-write the ebuilds |
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>> and build the tarballs for it still. I've been installing gnome 3.2 |
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>> on there, so it's going a bit slow at the moment. One caveat of using |
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>> a "modern" desktop-y system is that consolekit seems to need |
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>> CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL which doesn't exist for ARM devices yet. |
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> Ah, this is good news, I was just looking at the A8 version. |
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> Do you have minicom working on the usb ports (using an FTDI |
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> usb-2-serial chip?). |
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Being as I work for Genesi (see my sig) I have a debug board, when I |
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need it (technically I don't since I had to give mine up but if I |
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needed to I could get one from someone else in the company) worst case |
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scenario, if something bad happens I can boot from an SD card and fix |
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it. |
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> Have you cobbled together some sort of wired ethernet |
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> (usb-2-ethernet) of some type or do you just use |
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> wireless Ethernet? |
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I use wifi on the smartbook, but the default config for the 2.6.31 |
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kernel in use has support for all usb->ethernet devices. |
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> You gonna put a doc into the hadbook like trimslice? |
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I thought there was one floating around somewhere. Eventually I |
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might, but I don't have as much free time as I would like, and I |
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dislike xml, so if I did, I'd make a text file and shoot it off to |
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armin76 or nightmorph or someone to make it all pretty for the web. |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/?part=4&chap=10 |
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> I'm itching to do this, but, I wanted to wait on the A15 chip |
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> (Omap5). Alas I may jump in before that A15 is shipping.... |
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Being as our company uses Freescale chips, I'm looking forward to the |
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mx6, although it will probably be a while before anything comes out in |
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the consumer space based on it. Quad core will be nice. |
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Best Regards, |
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Steev |
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Steev Klimaszewski <steev@××××××××××.com> |
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Senior Software Engineer, Genesi USA, Inc. |
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