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

On Wednesday 04 June 2008 19:05:59 Petr Cerny wrote:

> > However, you're probably better off using OpenEmbedded/bitbake, which
> > will, or should, handle all the compilation for you.
> >
> > 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.
>
> Is there any *working* image at all?
>
> I have tried familiar for hx4700 (which has the closest specification to
> A730) and it either hangs on "kernel panic: tried to kill init" or
> somewhere in the init scripts (if they manage to run at all). And I've
> had basically the same result with armedslack (slackware port to ARM
> architecture). No idea what's wrong... :(
>
The system works, unless someone's broken it in the last six months or so, but
you have to build it yourself. (I suppose I could put up my images if you
really want, but they're six-month-old snapshots of the CVS[1] version; they
probably have crazy bugs) OpenEmbedded comes with a config file for the A730;
I just used that, fiddle the kernel config a little bit (IIRC the option for
support for the relevant touchscreen wasn't set by default) and it works
fine.

Michael

[1] Technically they use monotone, but same difference
Received on Thu Jun 05 2008 - 04:36:59 EDT