On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Christoph Spielmann <[email protected]> wrote: > Well welcome to gentoo on the freerunner!
Thanks! > Well there's not just one package you need to merge to get the phone > working. There are actually a few more choices you have to make before you > can even think of getting gentoo on the phone. > > 1. Do you want to cross-compile or compile natively? Both have pro and cons, > i personally use the cross-compilation path but i know some ppl that are > compiling natively on the phone I tried to do this without cross compile, set up simple qemu and tried to make stage3. This took my about 5 days with my current computer... So I give it up. Cross compile is better choice but many packages have issues... I fix them one by one. > 2. glibc or something smaller like uclibc or even dietlibc? What do you recommend? I thought of using glibc to avoid many future problems. > 3. What de/wm do you want to use? lxde? e17? kde? Just like everything else > concerning gentoo you have a ton of choices and possibilities What do you recommend? I think kde is too large and complex... I am open to any suggestion. > 4. What gui do you want to use for phone-related tasks? shr-stuff? zone? Or > even something else? At the moment we're only supporting fso-framework for > the more low-level stuff and shr or zhone for the frontend. There are other > possibilities tho (hackable1 is something that comes to my mind almost > instantly, or qtopia). I start with whatever you support and go from there... So I guess shr is the right chice? > 5. probably some more stuff but i think that these are the most important > things to think about >> >> Can anyone send me a list of packages as an example? >> > > I've attached a list of packages i've currently installed on the phone. Keep > in mind that you probably need some more/other stuff but it should get you > started! Thank you!!! It looks like the whole tree... Can you please send only the "world" part? Also, do you have special /etc settings people might be intrested? This will be interesting week-end :) Alon.
