Hi, softfloat sounds very interesting. Is your root "self-hosting", that is, it contains devel. headers and a usable gcc? If you can throw in obj-c support, I'd be happy to throw debian away. It is indeed a bit "fat". That's eventually the way to go for a final Letux support. The advantage of Debian was to get all the libraries ready.
To get a foundation where to run GNUstep on, I only need some pretty standard stuff: -> gcc 3 or up (gcc 2.95 works, but it is cumbersome) with obj-c support -> libxml, libssl, gnutls (optional), libffi -> libtiff, libjpg, libpng, lingif -> libcairo or libart Except for libffi, it should be pretty standard. For basic sound support libsnd and libao On debian I found everything, although without softfloat, the performance of some of these libraries suffers. Riccardo On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Matt Oudenhoven <matt.oudenho...@gmail.com>wrote: > I built everything with softfloat and used libmad and tremor for > mplayer. Mp3's play great with madplay and/or mplayer. Video's encoded > with settings similar to what is needed for pocket pc's also play > extremely well full screened. > > While i too like debian it was just too heavy on these machines. My > rootfs at 125mb would take about 500mb if i installed the same > software in debian. The only 2 drawbacks right now are lack of udev > support and wpa (without skytones weird proprietary wifiup and > wireless-lan software). > > Cheers. > > On 3/14/11, Daniel Glöckner <daniel...@gmx.net> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 09:16:08AM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > >> I'm not so concerned about > >> sound, which I never used on 2.4 too since with FPU emulation it is not > >> possible to play MP3s > > > > You don't need an FPU to play MP3s: > > http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/ > > > > And if you prefer Vorbis, there is the Tremor decoder, which is used > > f.ex. by mplayer. > > > > Daniel > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mipsbook-devel mailing list > > Mipsbook-devel@linuxtogo.org > > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mipsbook-devel > > >
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