I like this list more than blogs and I'm in one of those sharing kinda moods.
So every single day is a new adventure in the embedded world. I learn a bit more and I share a bit more every day (mostly via IRC vs this list). It's a fun an exciting time to be apart of Gentoo. Anyway I geared up for winter and got 4 new embedded boards based mostly around the sc324XX series (aka OpenMoko CPU) and a stk500(AVR). So hopefully our handbooks board files will fill up a bit more.. We have a new dev in training on the embedded side named Angelo Arrifano aka miknix that originated with the linwizard project who will be joining our team to help out with PDA/CellPhone/GPE/OpenMoko alike things. He started out as what Gentoo calls an 'AT' for amd64. But it turns out he was one of the masterminds behind the porting of the HTC-wizard to linux. So he is much more useful over here. It was during the porting of the wizard that I noticed his skills and attention to detail. Often finding and coming up with better fixes than me. So I quite look fwd to him joining our team soon. Crossdev is known to have a few problems building recently. Bails out on headers on pretty much every arch. There are two workarounds for this that I know of at the moment. One is to hack the ebuild and add --disable-headers and the other is to simply let crossdev fail. Then emerge -1O cross-$CHOST/gcc && crossdev -t $CHOST while making sure nsl/iconv/locales are disabled. I'm sure spanky will fix that soon if he has not already. If you still have difficulty. There is http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/ which provides binary pkgs for a lot of chosts and cross toolchains. Is gentoo-embedded satisfying your basic/common needs? What more can/should we do as a multi arch distro? Random Good links: http://www.sparkfun.com http://www.soekris.com http://www.elinux.org http://www.lynxmotion.com http://www.jameco.com http://www.maxim-ic.com http://www.digikey.com http://www.arduino.cc http://www.nslu2-linux.org http://wiki.openembedded.net http://embedded.gentoo.org https://everything.else... -- Ned Ludd <solar/gentoo.org>
