On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, jcunningham63 wrote:
> My ignorance is manifest.
>
> I succeeded in building a 2.6.18.8 kernel with the help of Daniel
> Smolik's patchset http://arm.mydatex.cz/ARM_patch/, his config,
> "Building Embedded Linux Systems" (O'Reilly), the crosstool script,
> and a couple days of fooling around. I've scp'ed it to my ts7200's CF,
> but I just realized I don't have a 2.6 compatible distribution with a
> root filesystem and basic services to boot into. It goes into the
> weeds when I try to use Debian Sarge, of course.
>
> Now what do I do? With my 2.4 kernel I was nfs mounting Debian Sarge
> as distributed from TS. Can anyone give me some hints as to how I go
> about getting or building the equivalent for Etch?
>
> Regards,
> Jeff Cunningham
I made my own using gentoo - see
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/cross-development.xml
The root filesystem is 20MB all up including busybox, glibc, dropbear,
nano and openntpd. I've removed all the development stuff like include
headers and kernel sources and package databases and library archives,
since with those included it's some 800MB!
I've uploaded a few bits and pieces to
http://triffid.funkmunch.net/ts7250/ if you want some shortcuts :)
I developed it on an nfs mount then copied to flash - works great!
At some stage I'll build a uclibc root and see which I like better. I
already know it'll be much smaller since I use uclibc for my ~1.6MB
initramfs, but haven't yet looked closely into the differences between
glibc and uclibc.
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