Hello Brian, On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Brian Silverman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for advice into what Linux distributions (rootfs) people are > using for the PowerPC. > > Specifically, I'm currently using busybox for my core rootfs, but I'm > buildroot I guess, not busybox (alone).
> looking for an alternative that will allow me to: > - easily add new packages > - is binary compatible with the PPC405. 440, and Freescale 85xx cores. > binary compatible? You mean it can build binaries for those cores? > - can be large (compared to the usual embedded devices), say in the 100MB > to 1GB range. It will sit on an SD card. > - Can be built/maintained under cygwin, and can generate a ext2 image > (e.g. with gen2extfs) > > 3) OpenEmbedded (doesn't seem to currently support cygwin) > My preference is to use OpenEmbedded and do so under a Linux host system (any will do). As I don't want to be tied to a certain host OS, Emdebian or Gentoo-Embedded are no-go for me. I have used tools and rootfs systems like crosstool, buildroot, LFS before. There is also LTIB by Freescale, tried that? Regards, -- Leon _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-embedded mailing list Linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded
