Carsten: We can see that more and more people are interested in Mer:) Walle: What is your target platform, phone,tablet,or TV/STB? What's the arch, ARM,MIPS or x86? I think a startpoint for you is to port Mer to your device. (1) If you use FLASH, then you can build a Mer rootfs image from kickstart file, and burn it to flash; (2) If you use SD card, then you can build an image like mer-tv-pandaboard.
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Carsten Munk <[email protected]>wrote: > 21. jan. 2012 13.32 skrev superccxin <[email protected]>: > > Hi all! > Hi Walle, glad to hear of your interest > > I am a newbies of linux and MER, and I've only wrote some linux > device > > drivers. > > I don't hava any real project develop experience but i hava sufficient > time > > and > > enthusiasm to learn. > > I've made search in internet but some problems still confuse me: > > 1. How to download the MER core(the linux source) and how to build > it? > So, Mer Core is already built for a number of targets for you: > > i486 (Generic X86) > i586 (X86 hardware with SSSE3 support) > armv6l (ARMv6 with VFP) > armv7l (ARMv7 with VFPv3-D16, softfp ABI) > armv7hl (ARMv7 with VFPv3-D16, hardfp ABI) > > Mer is a package based distribution, so, we have a bunch of source > packages at http://gitweb.merproject.org/gitweb that we build with a > system called Open Build Service and then give you built .rpm binaries > for the targets above. It is possible to build those source packages > individually as well. > > > 2. How many partions is MER divide, could i built each for them and > burn > > into > > flash(or SD, or...)discretely? > Traditionally you'd have a system in / -- there is some difficulty > into dividing into / /usr /var etc with systemd, our service manager, > but a setup like: > > / -- system > /boot -- boot information, kernel, bootloader > /opt -- applications > /home -- user data > /tmp and /var/tmp -- temporary data > > should be entirely possible > > 3. How to port MER to my own board? > With the next Mer release that comes out, we hope to provide some > generic file systems for each of the targets above. You take one of > those closest to your device, add a kernel (2.6.32 and above) with > some extra settings and try to boot it :) > > > ... > > OMG,so many questions and i hope you can help me. > > I plan using all of my Chinese new year holiday to find out what MER is > and > > how > > to be a developer > > > > BR > > Walle > > >
