On Wed 31 Oct, Thomas J. Merritt wrote: > Ok. I'm a bit new to ARM Linux and Linux in general. I've been able to > build a kernel for the EDB7312 and get it to boot on the box. The > problem that I have now is getting a root filesystem mounted. I would > prefer to NFS mount the root filesystem from one of my servers. I haven't > been able to find a reference on either where to get sources and how > to build them or where to get binaries. Anyone have any pointers for > me?
Debian has a huge pile of arm binaries which make an easy way to get precompiled stuff. ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/ or /debian/pool/ You can also go to their website and look through the package collection (the links there only get you to i386 binaries by default but you just change binary-i386/ to binary-arm/ to get the right stuff. For another example set of useful files you can use the bootstrap.tar.gz base image from ftp.handhelds.org/familiar/install/ (something like that)(these assume armv4l, but that's OK on the 7312) I just made a ramdisk image for a cl98712 based device using that which works fine. What someone really needs to do is fettle something like emdebian's emdebsys(CML2+OS) tool for autogenerating ramdisks and kernels from package collections to save us all having to do it by hand. Any volunteers come talk to me and I'll show you what needs doing.... Wookey -- Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679 work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://www.chaos.org.uk/~wookey/ _______________________________________________ http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm Please visit the above address for information on this list.
