On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 10:28:53 +0200, LluÃs Batlle i Rossell wrote:
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
Oh, so you're the creator of nanonixos? Cool! I've been wanting to try
it...Maybe after Debian.
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