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 -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list Ubuntu-mobile@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile