Re: First Linux boot !!!

hi,

please take a look at: http://www.openembedded.org/

there are already may machines in.

http://www.openembedded.org/filebrowser/org.openembedded.dev/conf/machine
http://www.openembedded.org/repo/org.openembedded.dev/conf/machine/hx4700.conf

its an very easy to use toolchain

http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/GettingStarted

i have got 4 pdas running with OE.

regards,
 patrick

> On 1/19/07, Pierre GAUFILLET <pierre.gaufillet_at_magic.fr> wrote:
>> I am looking for informations regarding the build of initrd and basic
>> system.
>> JeDi : could you explain how you proceed ?
>
> I'll have a look this weekend. I'm now stuck in windows at work. But
> if I remember correctly, building an initrd isn't that hard. Actually,
> it's just a gzipped filesystem image. I think with mke2fs, you can
> choose to create an ext2 image as a file. You then mount that, but all
> necessary files in it, unmount and gzip it. I just started from the
> initrd that was current back then. It still has a lot of
> aximx30-specific stuff in it, so it's far from ideal.
> In the initrd, I put everything that was necessary to initialize
> hardware (first of all the display driver, then touchscreen, ...).
> After that, it mounted the rootfs image and chrooted to that. The
> rootfs image I created was started from the handhelds.org images
> (opie-based).
>
> The latest version had the lcd working, and touchscreen was almost
> working. If I remember correctly, there was a lot of development going
> on to provide drivers for the chipset our machine uses for the
> touchscreen.
>
> I'm sorry, it has been half a year, I don't remember everything :-)
> But I'll look at it this weekend...
>
>
>> What about using the debian tools to build all that stuff and run a
>> debian distribution on Axims ?
>
> I think it is better to use the familiar distribution. It is derived
> from debian if I remember correctly, but optimised for pdas.
>
>
> Greetz,
> JeDi
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