Re: [gentoo-embedded] Some good words for Gentoo embedded?

[Peter Stuge]

Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> > i use gentoo on my embedded because i find it incredibly easier to
> > get a working toolchain, build a $root filesystem, and copy it to
> > something like flash and i'm all set.
..
> The drawback of it (and similar systems which originate from mainline
> distros) is that they're limited to relatively "large" devices

Hm? Define "large" ? Does the definition include anything capable of
having a root filesystem?


> and tend to be challenged by the fact that the toolsets originally
> hadn't be designed for that purpose.

Bare metal? Certainly. We know this fact very well in coreboot, for
example. But also other projects designed to run on bare metal (such
as open source ARM projects) will know this well.


> On the other hand, they heavily benefit from the large amount of
> already ported packages.

The bare-metal projects not so much. They only need a single package,
and I think something like portage is way overkill..


//Peter