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Hi, |
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On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 19:50:39 -0400 |
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Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote: |
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> so i was tooling along the road thinking about what it would take for |
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> people to sit down and use Gentoo/embedded for the target ... |
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> currently we have misc ways of doing this by hand (install |
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> mask/etc...), but it tends to be error prone and it requires the end |
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> user to know more than they should about the portage environment |
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> what would help here is a frontend ... something like uClinux or Open |
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> Embedded where a menu system allows the user to select the packages |
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> to install into the target image and when they're done, they simply |
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> type 'make' ... wait a bit and they're left with images that they can |
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> take and flash onto the target board |
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The way I see this, is that this is covered by buildroot, so it would be |
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duplicating things at some level to do this with gentoo. |
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> so really, a friendly frontend for the user to select the |
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> characteristics of the system, and then a backend to take that config |
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> and use emerge to build everything and generate an image ... would |
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> make it easy to create stock board descriptions too ... |
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But I think it would be really nice if we could teach catalyst to |
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generate embedded images from some "board" spec files. |
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And once this works, a fancy spec file editor with a nice gui could be |
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written if needed. |
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> what do you guys think ? stupid idea ? good idea waiting for a |
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> champion ? -mike |
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Yuri. |
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