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[ts-7000] Re: Qt/Embedded - almost there!

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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: Qt/Embedded - almost there!
From: "Doug" <>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:21:12 -0000
--- In  Scott Zimmerman <> wrote:
>
> Thanks Doug,
> 
> I definitely want to go with option 1.  My application doesn't need the
> Debian.  I just need enough to run Qt fullscreen.  I was actually using
> ratpoison on my 7390 anyway.  I have only ever been able to make the
> 512mbsd-latest.dd file into a bootable SD card.  I see the other images up
> there for tslinux, but could never get any of them to boot.  You obviously
> can't just dd them onto a card and there don't seem to be any instructions
> that show me how to make one.  I really just want something that boots to a
> shell prompt and then be able to run my application from there.

Ahh, okay. You will be fine replacing Debian then. Basically what I would do is 
tar up everything inside ~/x-tools/arm-blah-blah/arm-blah-blah/sys-root and 
stick it on the root of your SD card's Debian partition, replacing any current 
Debian libraries. You'll also have to copy over the /usr/local/Trolltech and 
tslib folders.

> This brings me to one last question - does the Qt implementation I just
> built require X11 to be installed on the 7390 or is it complete?  If it
> needs X, then it seems like I'll have to go down the road the Dunge2 is
> going to build an eabi version of X11.

It's complete--that's what's so great about Qt/Embedded--it doesn't depend on 
X. :)

> Thanks again for all your help.  I'm trying to document all this so I can
> post it back to the list.  I'd love to post something about the difference
> between running the 512mbsd images as well as all the tarballs required to
> run an EABI root with Qt.  I think that would be really useful.

No prob...here's my experience regarding that. The 512mbsd images give you the 
correct partition table, MBR, etc, but they contain the OABI file system on the 
big partition.

If you go in here:

ftp://ftp.embeddedarm.com/ts-arm-sbc/ts-7390-linux/distributions/

They have tarballs of different root file systems. Someone could extract that 
onto the big partition on the SD card to get the EABI root, I believe. There 
may be more setup necessary than that--not totally sure. But again, that EABI 
root probably doesn't use glibc 2.9, so it wouldn't be compatible with the EABI 
stuff we compiled.



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