Thank you tommy, that's exactly what I was looking for !! :) Kris
On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 10:39 -0400, Tommy B wrote: > Kristian Benoit wrote: > > >Thanks, but I'm still wondering what are de differences. Like what make > >gentoo-embedded what it is and what make's open-embedded what it is. > > > > > > > I'm a dev on the nslu2-linux project. It uses open-embedded to build 3rd > party firmware to reflash the Linksys NSLU2 NAS with custom firmware. > Open-embeddeed is a combination of a tool (bitbake) and meta-data (kinda > like ebuilds) focused on building open-source embedded systems. It's > evolved over the last several years and is very embedded focused. It > does many things well, however, it is somewhat complex and not nearly as > encompasing as Gentoo. There are a couple thousand packages in the > open-embedded repository, but nothing like Gentoo. It is also in a very > high state of flux and things are often broken because of all the > change. The user community is very technical and expects people to dig > into the source, patches and python scripts/code that run things. > Finally, open-embedded is libc agnostic, does a lot of > cross-compilation well and builds everything as a normal user. > > Gentoo-embedded is the long process of teaching Gentoo to do the > cross-compliation and embedded systems well. Gentoo embedded supports > uClibc and has made tremendous progress in the last 6 months. > Gentoo-embedded and project like GNAP are really starting to ramp-up. > > A lot depends on your project, arch, and what your are trying to do and > what you like. > > Each has lots of trade-offs. > > > >Kris > > > >On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 16:23 -0600, Grant Likely wrote: > > > > > >>Open embedded was inspired by the concepts used by portage. There is > >>no link between open-embedded and gentoo-embedded implementations. > >> > >>g. > >> > >>On 6/8/05, Kristian Benoit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > >>>I'm wondering what is the differences between open-embedded and > >>>gentoo-embedded ? > >>> > >>>Kristian > >>> > >>>-- > >>>[email protected] mailing list > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > > > > > > > -- [email protected] mailing list
