Hey there
On Tue, May 04, 2010, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote:
> I'd like to create a Ubuntu ARM root file system based on the 10.04 LTS
> release using the rootstock tool. The problem is that I'm stuck with my
> current AT91sam9260 processor which only supports ARMv5 (rootstock in
> 9.10 and 10.04 dropped support for it).
>
> What do you think would be the ideal path to follow to get an
> ARMv5-friendly rootstock? I'm ready to put the resources to recompile
> the whole source repository. Any suggestions on how to proceed would be
> very much appreciated.
So one thing to keep in mind is that rootstock doesn't build the actual
ARM binaries; it creates *filesystems* from the prebuilt Ubuntu
packages. The Ubuntu packages were built for v5 in Ubuntu 9.04, and
are incompatible with ARMv5 in Ubuntu 9.10 and later. What you could
do:
* use Ubuntu 9.04 packages ("jaunty"); this is getting old and will
soon be unsupported AIUI
* use Debian; Debian's armel port is compatible with ARMv4t and above
* rebuild Ubuntu or wait for someone to provide a rebuild; currently
this aint easy, but it's on the radar of various people to try to
provide a tool to allow this; it's not really aimed at ARMv5
specifically though, and this will take a while to appear/happen
Hope this helps,
--
Loïc Minier
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