+++ Leonardo Canducci [2013-05-31 18:10 +0200]: > I'm playing with my new Cubieboard. I discovered armstrap[1] on IRC > and it seems pretty cool. Anybody tried it? What do you think? > > [1] https://github.com/EddyBeaupre/armStrap
I'm sure it's useful for cubieboards, and it does seem sensibly put together, but the idea that it is 'universal' is pretty optimisitic. It covers the case where you want to cross-build a local kernel source tree and combine that into a debootstrapped debian rootfs, for an architecture that has qemu support, and where the image ends up on an SD card. Now that covers a fair number of boards and it seems to have been written with generality in mind, but it's no use at all for most of the boards I have to hand (nand, not SD, or targetting arm64 (no qemu)). The more boards you try to make it work on, the more the assumptions will become noticeable and the more options it will have to grow. There is something 'special' about every board IME. That's why multistrap just provides 'config-script' and 'setup-script' functions to do whatever jiggery-pokery is needed (and that mechanism can work without qemu). There is a lot of commonality in the sorts of jiggery-pokery needed for many devices of course. There have been 101 scripts like this written. I think live-build already does pretty-much all that this script does (except probably building a local kernel source). Polystrap/multistrap also does this. Enhancing those generic tools with cubie config and a kernel-build option might have been smarter than making yet another framework. There are already at least 16 tools I know of for making rootfs images of one sort or another in debian. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
