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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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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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You gonna put a doc into the hadbook like trimslice? |
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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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James |
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