hi, please take a look at: http://www.openembedded.org/
there are already may machines in. http://www.openembedded.org/filebrowser/org.openembedded.dev/conf/machine http://www.openembedded.org/repo/org.openembedded.dev/conf/machine/hx4700.conf its an very easy to use toolchain http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/GettingStarted i have got 4 pdas running with OE. regards, patrick > On 1/19/07, Pierre GAUFILLET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am looking for informations regarding the build of initrd and basic >> system. >> JeDi : could you explain how you proceed ? > > I'll have a look this weekend. I'm now stuck in windows at work. But > if I remember correctly, building an initrd isn't that hard. Actually, > it's just a gzipped filesystem image. I think with mke2fs, you can > choose to create an ext2 image as a file. You then mount that, but all > necessary files in it, unmount and gzip it. I just started from the > initrd that was current back then. It still has a lot of > aximx30-specific stuff in it, so it's far from ideal. > In the initrd, I put everything that was necessary to initialize > hardware (first of all the display driver, then touchscreen, ...). > After that, it mounted the rootfs image and chrooted to that. The > rootfs image I created was started from the handhelds.org images > (opie-based). > > The latest version had the lcd working, and touchscreen was almost > working. If I remember correctly, there was a lot of development going > on to provide drivers for the chipset our machine uses for the > touchscreen. > > I'm sorry, it has been half a year, I don't remember everything :-) > But I'll look at it this weekend... > > >> What about using the debian tools to build all that stuff and run a >> debian distribution on Axims ? > > I think it is better to use the familiar distribution. It is derived > from debian if I remember correctly, but optimised for pdas. > > > Greetz, > JeDi > -- > _______________________________________________ > Aximx50-port mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo/aximx50-port > > -- Patrick Steiner | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 128261350 Inet: http://helmsdeep.homelinux.net/~pat/ current working on: Webmail :-) -- _______________________________________________ Aximx50-port mailing list [email protected] https://www.handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo/aximx50-port
