Hello Hector, thank you for your quick reply. >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? It is from phytec: http://www.phytec.com/pdf/manuals/L-667e.pdf and luckily we have also boards with 32MByte Flash, would this be enough? The board has also a MMC card slot (but it is not working in uboot) or for demo purpose I could also boot via tftp. >> 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. So you mean to be in sync it is better to use sid than lenny? Wouldn't be a problem as I could just install debian sid on another partition. >> - 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 did this but i get the same error when using emsetup: debian:~# dpkg-reconfigure dpkg-cross debian:~# emsetup Error: dpkg-cross does not currently support "arm" debian:~# >> 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. So I guess arm should be ok for the XScale PXA270. >> 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. If I can make a little demo running I will make a "how to" document on a basic level (a step by step) anyway for the customer. Don't know if such a doc would be interested for you guys. >> 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. It is not so much I want, just a little emdebian demo ;-). >Regards, >-- > Héctor Orón Regards, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
