Hello Marco, 2009/2/2 Hoefle Marco <[email protected]>: > Hello, > our customer is using uClinux from a linux distributer charging indirectly > licensing fees for things they took from uClinux.org and other community > developed stuff. Furthermore, their drivers are buggy and not well tested. > Thus I thought emdebian might be a good alternative with well tested drivers > and packages. Thus I want to make a emdebian crush demo > on their board they are currently using (based on a Xscale 270PXA, 16 MByte > Flash and 64 MByte RAM). The problem is that I am not familiar with debian > packages (we use Redhat).
Emdebian crush does not fit in a 16MByte flash *yet*. May I know which board are you talking about? > What I did for the demo so far: > - I installed debian lenny and the emdebian tools using the repositories > http://build.emdebian.org/emdebian/ unstable main > http://www.emdebian.org/debian/ unstable main Currently we still under development, so it is better to create and work inside unstable chroot. > - I installed the arm cross compiling tools with: > # apt-get install libc6-armel-cross libc6-dev-armel-cross > binutils-arm-linux-gnueabi gcc-4.3-arm-linux-gnueabi > g++-4.3-arm-linux-gnueabi > > -tried to use emsetup: > debian:~# emsetup > Could not determine the default architecture, please use emsetup --arch > debian:~# emsetup --arch > Could not determine the default architecture, please use emsetup --arch > debian:~# emsetup --arch arm > > Error: dpkg-cross does not currently support "arm" > debian:~# man emsetup Try to set up the architecture running: # dpkg-reconfigure dpkg-cross > > I don't know what architectures are supported and how to add the arm > architecture. Emdebian wants to support all official debian architectures, but currently arm is the one more usable. > And a few other things are not clear to me: I saw that uboot > is referenced on the emdebian website. After the emdebian crush flow is > there a kernel and a file system image which can be loaded with uboot? The > current bootloader is uboot and it would be really handy if emdebian crush > can be booted with uboot. Emdebian just provides a rootfs, nor a bootloader, nor a kernel, nor drivers, ... For such things i would recommend you to take a look to openwrt project as they look like to fullfill your requirements. > Is there a step by step document available on how to install emdebian crush > on a emedded system with little storage resources? Just the documents on the site and search for Emdebian category under debian wiki pages. > Any help is greatly appreciated as I am stuck right now. >From my point of view, emdebian needs a little work to do all you want to do. Regards, -- Héctor Orón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
