On 29/09/11 02:54, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
On 22/09/11 11:56, Greg KH wrote:
In other words, what box do I need to go buy in order to help make this possible? :) This is exactly the question I have ;) you know, all is nice in theory with emulation and cross-compilers but in reality it doesn't quite work that way... so would be really nice to have real hardware handy, preferable something with more than 1GB RAM otherwise is gonna be painful...
People have told me that cross compilers do work well but I'm not buying that assertion really ;-P
The majority of systems are based on ARM v7l (Cortex A8). root@g3vbv:~# uname -a Linux g3vbv 3.1.0-rc7-d3 #1 SMP Fri Sep 23 00:08:59 UTC 2011 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux root@g3vbv:~# cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=11.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=natty DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 11.04" root@g3vbv:~# I am not sure if Ubuntu runs on all the variants out there, but it seems pretty generic. It would be a good idea to look at what Ubuntu has done which seems very successful. I ran Ansgstrom and Ubuntu on the Beagleboard C3 before I got the XM. I started on the Beagleboard XM with ubuntu-11.04-preinstalled-netbook-armel+omap.img.gz and do online updates regularly. I'm not 100% sure of cross compilers either as about the only things I've successfully built are ARM kernels. Where I saw failures, it was due to missing compatible libraries. I got an error and I just gave up and never got back to looking closer to see if it was solvable. Where Ubuntu has trumped the Angstrom distro is in the vast range of apps and utilities available from Ubuntu repositories, so building on native ARM is as easy as building on x86 ... ignoring speed. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Senior Staff Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org