Cool - I'll check it out.
The moko is an arm920t core (armv4t arch), but I believe that the
official packages aren't even compiled with the EABI. The core itself is
exactly the same as that of the TS-72xx boards, which I've worked with
extensively. The packaging, pinouts, and on-chip peripherals are really
all that are different, so creating a toolchain is a non-issue.
The /proc/cpuinfo component of the FreeRunner's kernel is slightly
bjorked - through some odd patches they have mashed board info into the
cpuinfo structure somehow instead of the cleaner /proc/SBC/info structure.
I should have no problem taking my current instructions from the
gentoo-wiki and editing them to provide info for the openmoko. U-Boot,
and the usb-loader utility (dfu-util) are the only components that I
have little experience with. Although it was reasonably easy enough to
load the om2008.8 image.
So I guess, in the long run, I'll be aiming to provide a kernel patchset
specifically for the freerunner hardware in the portage tree, as well as
a toolchain patchset for the samsung sc324XX SoC that the openmoko folks
are using. It should be possible to build everything that the openmoko
folks provide in any of their images, given a list of packages & the
patchsets, but using the (far better IMHO) ebuild build system as
opposed to bitbake.
Nedd & Angelo - with the PDA-centric overlay ( & binary packages? ) that
you guys are creating, are there any plans in the works for making a
(graphical?) package manager app for mobile devices? I'm using
portage-utils pretty extensively these days for a push-ing distributed
package manager, which my boss has me unfortunately implementing as a
grails web-app, but I'd be very interested in collaborating on something
like that, gtk-based, ncurses-based, written in Java for all I care, etc.
Cheers,
Chris
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On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 10:44:28PM +0200,
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=C2ngelo_Miguel_Arrifano_ wrote:
On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:02:52 -0400
Christopher Friedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is anyone else on this list contributing to the openmoko codebase? Does
anyone else have a FIC handheld?
I just got a freerunner a couple of days ago and threw om2008.8 on it.
The QT interface is pretty nice and I'd like to start contributing some
code, but I'd rather use Gentoo's build system instead of the OE build
system.
Is anyone aware of an existing overlay ?
Cheers,
Chris
Hello,
Me and Ned Ludd are working on a embedded overlay mostly for PDAs.
The overlay is located here:
http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/embedded/linwizard/overlay/
The overlay includes some fixed ebuilds for cross-compiling base
dependencies. There is also a GPE tree there that should be emergeable.
More recently, we started to work on openmoko ebuilds. It's not finished
yet.
We also provide binary packages for ARMV5TE-JL here:
http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/embedded/linwizard/
I don't own a freerunner, but I can't test most of it on my HTC wizard.
I have one and would be happy to test. Thanks for the work on this.
