2008/11/10 Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [cut]
> > We're looking at gentoo embedded because then we'd be dogfooding uClibc and > busybox, which is cool. (No, buildroot is not an option; you have no package > management, and the project has still never had an actual _release_. The > OSUOSL guys would really like something that's actually capable of being A) > administered after installation, B) reliably reproduced.) The OSUOSL guys > have an auto-administration system that a couple variants of Gentoo are > already registered in, and are willing to at least look at extending it to > handle gentoo embedded. (An alternative is that Solar and I can admin it, > and since he's the gentoo embedded maintainer it doesn't get much better than > that...) > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.embedded/browse_thread/thread/e0eb218d42e19e67?hl=en&pli=1 Here is a (far incomplete) list of features for OE. http://wiki.openembedded.net/index.php/Features Functional * cross-compile packages for various CPU architectures like x86, x86_64/amd64, powerpc, arm (various generations), mips, avr32 * build complete bootable distributions that can be installed on flash or SD/MMC media * build compatible package for non-OpenEmbedded based distributions like Maemo, OpenWRT or various 'vendor Linuxes' * build thousands of software packages using all kinds of programming languages and runtime environments like C/C++, Perl, Python, Java, Mono * create binary packages in IPK, RPM, DEB or tar.gz format * chose from a wide range of C libraries as the base of your distribution: glibc, uclibc or eglibc * optionally employ Debian-like naming on binary packages (e.g. libfoo) * create complete toolchain packages for your target system which can be deployed on application developer machines Non-functional * reproduceable builds (let two persons with two different machines but same setup create the same binary) * strongly self-hosting, requires only a minimum of tools to be installed right away Cheers, -- /roberto _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox
