Re: [Gumstix-users] The Gumstix and Familiar

[Chris L. <ke...@ha...>]

* Craig Hughes (cr...@hu...) wrote:
> >Does anyone know how the gumstix performs with Familiar, or any of the 
> >other 'embedded' linux distros?
> 
> You will need some hardware defs that aren't probably in any of the 
> standard linux distros, but you can probably get them working by using 
> the patches we provide through our SVN server at 
> http://svn.rungie.com/svn/gumstix-buildroot/trunk -- Alternatively, you 
> can build a kernel using our buildroot, and drop it into the distro you 
> want to try out.  No reason I can think of that whatever ARM distro you 
> choose shouldn't behave OK if you have a working kernel...

The openembedded build tools can target the gumstix, though I doubt it's
being actively maintained.  OE is being used to produce the
distributions for the next OpenZaurus release, the next Familiar
release, the next OpenSimpad release, and numerous others.  I would
recommend taking a look.  The primary upstream package metadata
repository includes over 1,000 buildable packages.

http://openembedded.org/ -> wiki -> GettingStarted
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Chris Larson - kergoth at handhelds dot org
Linux Software Systems Engineer - clarson at ti dot com
OpenZaurus Project Maintainer - http://openzaurus.org/