On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 11:24:32PM -0600, Alan Post wrote: > On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 11:31:12PM -0500, [email protected] wrote: > > I am wondering what you all think about how far I, or any of us, for > > that matter, should go with hacking on the Ben. For one, Qi adapted > > OpenWRT rather than made a new distribution from (near) scratch. Was > > this due to time constraints, or something else? Would it be worth > > it for someone to learn the MIPS architecture sufficiently well to > > make a Ben Tailored OS? Or, since the new Nanonote may or may not > > have a similar chip, is it better to stay "on the surface" as it > > were and not get too involved in low-level stuff? Maybe the > > experience alone of deep MIPS knowledge will be worth it even if we > > move to another chip in the future? If one does not go deeper than > > the kernel and other basic utils, I suppose "from scratch" would > > mean getting a custom kernel and utils, tuning them, then building > > from there, right? I think in general, x86 GNU/Linux is assumed to > > be as optimized as it could be, but I'm not sure about other > > architectures like ARM, MIPS, etc. Since someone has already done > > the work, perhaps it is not good to try and re-do it...? > > > > If you'd like to stay with Linux, but are interested in moving off > of OpenWRT, you might find one of these projects interesting for > your effort: > > https://github.com/pikhq/bootstrap-linux > http://www.landley.net/aboriginal/ >
I made my own GNU/Linux flavour for the Ben, and that's what I run: http://vicerveza.homeunix.net/~viric/cgi-bin/nanonixos But I used zero mips-knowledge to achieve that. :) There are plenty of other ARM or MIPS computers running GNU/Linux, so I think the ARM/MIPS code for MIPS or GNU programs is under enough care already by upstream programmers. Regards, Lluís _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
