embedded ubuntu?

[Jerry Haltom]

It doesn't matter. Debian runs on armel. Heck, the Nokia 770 is armel.
It'd take an individual a single day to get the base tools running on
it, and copy over any relevant Debian patches, or Nokia patches.

>From there it's just boring drudgery of building packages.

Just do it all in qemu. It's "fast enough"... and an actual
Debian/Ubuntu port would require being built on "real hardware", not a
cross compiler.


On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 16:52 -0700, Anderson Lizardo wrote:
> Jerry Haltom <wasabi at larvalstage.net> wrote:
> 
> > I'd be interested helping somebody start a basic armel or whatever
> > bootstrap of edgy. It doesn't have to work on any specific devices,
> > or
> > be fast... but a simple qemu bootable system would be nice.
> 
> I think that's a very good idea! It can also help us identify whether
> current Edgy is buildable on armel and (if not) identify possible
> issues on porting to "real" hardware.
> 
> Do you have any preference on a cross-build solution?
> http://www.emdebian.org/ lists various cross-compilation tools (see
> left menu), maybe we can pick one or two and do some comparisons.
> 
> I personally find Scratchbox easy to use (I use it at work), but I can
> test other tools too.
> 
> Another thing to decide is which "basic" selection of packages we want
> to build initially. I'd suggest trying to get ubuntu-minimal built
> first, then try other more "complex" packages.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Regards,
> --
> Anderson Lizardo
> 
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