Hi, On 2012-02-20, at 1:40 PM, Wookey wrote:
> +++ Fathi Boudra [2012-02-20 09:34 -0800]: >> Hi >> >> On 20 February 2012 08:42, Zach Pfeffer <zach.pfef...@linaro.org> wrote: >>> During ELC a few people asked me if Linaro had something bigger than >>> nano and smaller than Ubuntu that they could use to build stuff. Of >>> course I said Android, but a lot of people actually want a regular >>> Linux platform where they can easily recompile what they need to hack >>> on, add their own libs and scripts and generally work in an "embedded, >>> cross build way." > >> We provide 6 Ubuntu based images that we can consider as profiles. >> It's easy to customize or build your own image that will better fit >> your use case or requirements. >> >> In our case, we use live-build [1] which allow to put your >> customization on top of our images [2] or even from scratch. >> Tom has written a wiki page [3]. The page needs some update (I'm >> willing to help) to add upcoming armhf images and latest live-build >> with cross support. > > We should be clear what is meant by 'cross-support' in this context. > This is cross image-creation, not cross-building. If the > _cross-building_ part of this is important to punters then we don't > yet have a very good answer (not everything in the developer image > will crossbuild directly from the archive yet), although we are > getting there as multiarch, and sbuild-with-cross-support mature. > > But in general most people who think they want to cross-build > everything are wrong :-) In fact they really just want to cross-build > a few things that they build over and over, and getting most of the > system as binaries is just fine. I'm interested to hear of > counter-examples (the main one being complier improvements/options > which one wants to apply across the board). > > Another thing to note is that if the people asking for 'embedded > linaro linux' want smaller images we could run our packages through > the emdebian-grip tools to get smaller packages/images. (typically > 2/3rds size). I'm not sure anyone has got round to trying this, not > least because now everyone has SD-card based systems disk space mostly > stopped being an issue. no.. > People using 'proper flash' still care. yes! thx, KA > > Wookey > -- > Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM > http://wookware.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > linaro-dev mailing list > linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org > http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
