On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:25:43 -0400 Christopher Friedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 binary packages available here (http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/embedded/linwizard/) are targeted for armv5te-softfloat-linux-gnueabi > > 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. Yes, we have plans to change the package managers available in {GPE,openmoko,...} to support our .tbzs instead of ipkg. For now, I'm just more worried in getting a emergeable openmoko and GPE tree into the overlay. -- Angelo Arrifano > > Cheers, > > Chris > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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. > > >
