Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: Heath H Holcomb <heath@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] embedded profile to uclibc/x86/2.4 --Why not 2.6?
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 13:58:57
Message-Id: 200505270859.10307.heath@bulah.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-embedded] embedded profile to uclibc/x86/2.4 --Why not 2.6? by Brian Jackson
1 Do you think I should redo my entire development rootfs and make sure the
2 correct profile is selected? Or can I just relink the profile?
3
4 Also what stage did you use to create our development rootfs? I used
5 http://gentoo.osuosl.org/experimental/x86/embedded/stages/stage1-x86-uclibc-2005.0.tar.bz2
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7 --
8 Heath Holcomb
9 heath at bulah.com
10 www.bulah.com
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13 On 05 27 2005 08:50 am, Brian Jackson wrote:
14 > Heath H Holcomb wrote:
15 > > I've created my embedded development rootfs. Why is the profile linked
16 > > to /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/x86/2.4? Can I relink it to a 2.6
17 > > profile (/usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/x86/linux26).
18 >
19 > That profile is deprecated. /usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/x86 should get you
20 > all the 2.6 goodness from above. The standard in the profiles seems to be
21 > 2.6 by default, and use ....../2.4 if that's what you are after. Don't know
22 > why our stages use the 2.4 profile since vapier screams at people that
23 > don't use 2.6.
24 >
25 > > Is 2.6 going to work with uclibc? Will a 2.6 kernel compile correctly,
26 > > or are there problems I should be aware of?
27 >
28 > I'm using it without any trouble. There are a number of devices that don't
29 > have 2.6 kernels that will work on them fully. (most of the PDAs I know of,
30 > broadcom based routers, etc.)
31 >
32 > --Iggy
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