On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 4:13 PM Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/20/20 2:49 PM, Scott Andrews wrote: > > My foray into building LFS on the raspberry pi platform has went > > extremely well. I am thinking about taking the LFS book that is > > currently available and modifying it for the ARM platform. The required > > changes are not many. This may turn out to be a long range project, as > > I am going to look into doing this after I get two rpi servers and a > > couple of desktop systems built. > > > > If I am successful in doing so could it be placed on the > > linuxfromscratch.org website as a new project? > > > > Are there any copyright issues with doing this? > > ... > The above is a lot of work and requires a substantial long term > commitment of time and effort. > > An alternative is to create a hint that takes a snapshot from a current > version of the book(s) and documents what changes are needed that > differentiate the rpi from an x86_64 build. > Scott, as a Raspberry Pi enthusiast myself, I would love to see what you came up with. I have completed LFS on Raspberry Pi before, thanks to help from PiLFS (https://intestinate.com/pilfs/). I understand that in post 8.0 versions of the LFS book, things are a lot easier for Pi building. It would be awesome to include the extra notes in the book(s) for everyone to use. I understand why splitting the book would be a non-starter. In summary, this is a heartfelt vote in support of including Pi-specific hints/notes in the LFS books, however minimizes the burden to the great work the maintainers do for us all. Incidentally, as slow as it is, building LFS directly on a real Pi seems to be the least painful way. I tried to build for Pi in qemu, hosted on Debian on Intel x64, and that was a total failure. For some reason it got bogged down trying to build gcc. I gave up after it got stuck for 8 days. I'm curious if anyone has gone down that road and succeeded.
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