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On Thursday 23 April 2009 18:31:47 Previdi Roberto wrote: |
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> hello gentooers. I have installed gentoo on my openmoko gta02 with |
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> good results, and i am using the native approach because the cross |
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> compiling way seems too much complicated and much less fun.. Anyway |
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> the 400 Mhz processor is really slow for compiling and i decided to |
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> setup the distributed compilation with distcc, and it works well |
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> ewithoutu much effort. The remaining problem is that each package |
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> configure phase is very slow, i think because of the slow disk access |
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> (it must read/write on the microsd card..). |
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> so, is there any tested way to speed up everything? i used ext3 for |
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> the partition filesystem, so i think that is slowing down everything.. |
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> i think that a ramdisk is very difficult to use because the device |
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> have got really small ram (120 Mb!), so maybe a network filesystem |
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> could do? |
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> another option seems to be an autotools capability of using a |
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> centralized cache file, and there was a portage feature "confcache", |
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> but it seems to have been removed for incorrect behaviour.. anyone |
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> know something about or has got good results with autotools caching? |
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> |
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> thanks for any reply |
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1. Why don't put hole rootfs to NFS? Boot from SHR, chroot, and let's emerge |
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begin. |
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2. Wireless network on neo can be faster than wired. (usb1.1 net too slow) |
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3. swap file on nfs should work too. |
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BUT I really suggest cross compilation |
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1. more fun |
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2. it is the way, what all embedded should use |
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3. don't be lazy! |
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