Dear Martin Michlmayr, > * [email protected] <[email protected]> [2012-06-12 11:11]: > > Debian should be possible on here, no? > > It's possible to run Debian armel on this hardware. > > > Would any of the armel installers work on here do you think or would > > I have to start from scratch? > > The installer won't work. ARM is not like x86 where one > kernel/installer will work on the majority of PCs.
Unless you do DT. And if you use mainline kernel, that's the way to go ... > On ARM, you need a > kernel for each CPU/SoC platform and you have to add support in the > installer for each platform and for each device. > > Debian doesn't offer a kernel for the PXA168 and neither do we have > support in the installer. > > You basically have three options: > > a) Generate a Debian kernel package for PXA168 and adapt the installer > so it will use your custom repo. > > b) Use debootstrap to generate a Debian base system, build your own > kernel and offer that to download for users. > > c) Add a PXA168 kernel to Debian and add support in Debian. I don't > know how much interest there's in PXA168 though. Best regards, Marek Vasut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
