On Wed 10 Apr, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Jean-Luc Lebec wrote:
> > I need argument to choose debian... > For some general Debian advocacy, there's my Debian page at > http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/debian.html . > The only downside I can think of is the overhead of the package management > system (mainly /var/lib/dpkg), which can be a burden for small systems > like handhelds; It certainly is - we've done a debian-based distro for the psion 5mx, (http://www.psilinux.org/ ) but dpkg really does use megs and megs of both ram and store. It works so long as your 'small' is about 16MB RAM+ and >40MB store+ but less than that and you start to struggle. > in that case you probably want Familiar, which is very > similar to Debian. In fact it more or less is debian with a leaner package format and all the docs unused locales and other 'bloat' removed. And a dpkg replacement 'ipkg' which (at the expense of some simplification) uses a few tens of K of metadata and RAM. Or look at emdebian/emdebsys which generates a one-off functioning system of the smallest possible size, as opposed to one with live-installable/removable packages (like familiar or psilinux or debian itself). Emdebsys works with i386 and arm at the moment, so it might be worth checking out. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > - are there some projects with NS Geode GX1 processor, and next (SC1200, > 2200, 3200) Not that I am aware of. > - have anybody experience with ECM5410 board from evalue-tech ? not heard of it > - I heard about the SA1110 from Intel, but now that they have released > their new PXA250 processor, which have a Xscale architecture, I wonder > whether it is supported by Debian ? yes debian supports all arm processors from the Arm3 upwards. SA11x0 (and strongarm) support will be around for a long time to come - there are a lot of devices out there. > - is there a list talking on Real time, like RTlinux, or similar ? RT on arm is a developing area. I am not ware of any mailing lists that talk about it specifically. I do know that KURT was the first to support arm in kernel 2.4, and RTAI now has arm support. RED-ICE have support but only for a 2.0 kernel last time I looked. Last time I asked, monta vista and lineo were 'working on it' and 'about to start working on it' respectively. This is all a few months ago so things will have moved on a little. Don't expect to get real-time on arm without rolling your sleeves up (although it may be possible to do it by spending a lot of money to get someone else to roll their sleeves up by now :-) Wookey -- Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679 work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://www.chaos.org.uk/~wookey/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
