Re: [asus-port] i have a problem with arm-linux-gcc crosscompiler

On Tuesday 03 June 2008 13:33:56 crew-soc wrote:
> i have a asusA730W and want to install linux on it.
>
> first of all i downloaded the arm-linux-gcc crosscompiler
> from the handhelds.org page. then i unpacked it and copied it into
> /usr/local/arm.
>
> Now i don't know how to
>
> >>Just add the "bin" of this /usr/local/arm at the beginning of your
>
> PATH, and that's all you need<<
> http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/Linux26ToolsAndSources
>
> how do i add this bin ? and to what do i add it ?
>
You add it to your PATH environment variable, e.g.
$ export PATH=/usr/local/arm/bin:$PATH

However, you're probably better off using OpenEmbedded/bitbake, which will, or
should, handle all the compilation for you.

Bear in mind that linux on these machines is still quite immature; as of the
last time I tried, there is no (working) suspend support, and you need to do
a somewhat convoluted boot sequence since the only bootloader thus far is a
windows CE program. Sound support was broken the last I knew, though it was
working in an earlier version (2.6.16?) so this is probably a minor issue.
The wireless isn't (as far as I know) supported either. And remember booting
linux on it will wipe anything from your windows CE install that wasn't saved
to the flash disk. Finally, there don't seem to be that many active
developers.

I don't want to discourage you; it does basically work, and it's fun to play
around with, and if you're able to do development for it that'd be really
cool; I love these machines and keep meaning to fix some of the bugs I've
found. But, in my experience it's not really up to day-to-day use yet.

Michael
Received on Wed Jun 04 2008 - 08:29:35 EDT