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From: James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo for embedded-linux
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:36:52
Message-Id: loom.20080428T005607-466@post.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Gentoo for embedded-linux by Yoav Luft
1 Yoav Luft <yoav.luft <at> gmail.com> writes:
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4 > I've recently grown interested in Linux for embedded devices, specifically,
5 ARM computers and ARM core DSP's. I am a Gentoo-linux user and an electronics
6 technician, and know nothing about programming operating systems. Are there any
7 relevant projects, specifically Gentoo flavored once for embedded computing? I
8 did come across commercial embedded oriented distrobutions such as MonteVista
9 Linux and such. I am a hobbyist, I can't afford a hundreds of dollars
10 development kits, and I would like to use tools that I already somehow familiar
11 with, such tools as Gentoo's. But are they? can anyone point me to someone,
12 somewhere, beneath web-sphere?
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15 Take a look here:
16 http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/
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19 Also, there is an excellent gentoo- embedded user support group:
20 http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/lists.xml
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24 Here are a few additional links, related to ARM processors:
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26 http://gentoo-wiki.com/Gentoo_for_the_TS72xx_Single_Board_Computer_(Full_Distro)
27 http://perpetual-notion.blogspot.com/2008/02/maverick-crunch-eabi-support-for.html
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29 hth,
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31 James
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