Re: [gentoo-embedded] Using Gentoo for project

[Chuck Robey]

Cliff Brake wrote:

> On 6/15/06, Chuck Robey <chuckr@××××××.org> wrote:
>
>> I wanted to see if I could begin a rather long-term project to make use
>> of Gentoo, to create a project for ultimate installation on a Zaurus
>> SL-C3000 (and where I would specify a rather large amount of available
>> disk space).  The trouble right now is, I don' know the status of Gentoo
>> with regards to supporting such a project (even just supplying another
>> project that is close to it in architecture, such as also using the
>> Xscale processor, or maybe allowing the QT environment and a frame
>> buffer).
>>
>> If Gentoo has such a project, or any project that I might use as a jump
>> off point, could I please get and name of this project, and a pointer
>> either to a tarball, or maybe a documentation web page, and what mailing
>> list I could use.  I'm trying for extra info.
>>
>> My idea right now is to base a project upon the Pengutronix PTXdist
>> build environment.  It's based directly upon make, and doesn't try to
>> build it's own build tool, which I like a lot.  I don't want to solicit
>> help here, you folks have your own projects to work on (although I
>> wouldn't reject such help), so don't worry about my asking for a huge
>> amunt of help from you, but please, coul dyou give me some Gentoo
>> pointers to get me started off?  The Gentoo pages themselves seem to be
>> very bare of pointers to any Embedded project, it seems.
>
>
> Someone has gentoo running on a NSLU2 which has a Xscale ARM processor
> -- might be a good place to start:
>
Yes, I saw this ... all the things I have seen regarding installation of 
Gentoo into a PDA (inclduing Xscale) target, they all seem to be 
predicated upon having the target itself to build the gentoo upon.  It 
seems that there is no way to use any sort of cross-compiling to be able 
to generate a gentoo system... I *think* I could capure a i586 gentoo 
system, figure out each of the binaries, and make sure my system builds 
them Iinclduing emerge, all the portage things), and then try to just 
copy the config files.  Is that what I must do?  It just seems to me 
that someone must have tried to assemble a gentoo environment before this.

> http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/GentooSlug/HomePage
>
> I personally really like Openembedded because it has good support for
> cross compiling apps and contains lots of packages.  Running gentoo
> and other distros on Xscale targets is possible, but seems hardly
> practical due to the very long compile times.
>
> Cliff
>

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