I've just given the v2 release a try --- impressive stuff! The download Just Worked. No more faffing around with serial downloads every time I want to boot the thing, hurrah. It's also really nice to have a real boot loader. Plus, thanks to the magic of jffs2 there's an astonishing amount of root file system space...
A few minor quibbles:
- Busybox's loadkmap is very stupid and can't cope with my ASCII keymap table. (It also wants to refer to the obsolete /dev/vc/0.) I can't figure out how to compile my keymap, or even if such a concept makes sense these days.
- Is there an ipkg feed available where I can get iwconfig? I've tried the same feed that I use for my NSLU2, but it's not compatible. The statically compiled version I built myself (I couldn't make a dynamically compiled version to work) is over five megabytes. Ho hum.
- OpenEmbedded wants to rebuild monotone's roster cache. Apparently this is going to take about four hours.
Currently I'm trying to build a working zd1201 driver for wireless networking, which is involving some entertaining messing around with cross compilers --- it's suprisingly hard to find a decent cross compiler package for Debian.
On 20 Sep 2006, at 00:40, David Given wrote:
Currently I'm trying to build a working zd1201 driver for wireless networking, which is involving some entertaining messing around with cross compilers --- it's suprisingly hard to find a decent cross compiler package for Debian.
Can't you just use crosstool?
-J.
Jasmine Strong wrote:
On 20 Sep 2006, at 00:40, David Given wrote:
Currently I'm trying to build a working zd1201 driver for wireless networking, which is involving some entertaining messing around with cross compilers --- it's suprisingly hard to find a decent cross compiler package for Debian.
Can't you just use crosstool?
-J.
Or there is of course the dpkg-cross scripts. I am right in thinking that Debian still supports the largest number of architectures in any distro no?
Just a thought...
Don Alexander wrote:
Jasmine Strong wrote:
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Can't you just use crosstool?
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Or there is of course the dpkg-cross scripts. I am right in thinking that Debian still supports the largest number of architectures in any distro no?
I don't know crosstool, but Debian has a semi-automated mechanism for building toolchains for custom architectures --- and for some reason I've never been able to make it work reliably. It always seems to get half-way through building gcc before falling over with an obscure error message, and gcc's error messages can be *really* secure.
I have managed to find a suitable set of packages, but they aren't from anywhere official; just some guy with a private repository. There's got to be a better way of doing it than that.
Incidentally, I have since discovered that the kernel that comes with the v2 release doesn't have wireless switched on, so I'm going to have to recompile it. It looks as if the ams_delta_defconfig setup is *not* the one used by default --- does anyone know where I can get a suitable kernel.conf? Are there any easy-to-use recipes for using uboot to replace the kernel in flash, for when I inevitably screw things up?
David Given wrote:
I don't know crosstool, but Debian has a semi-automated mechanism for building toolchains for custom architectures --- and for some reason I've never been able to make it work reliably. It always seems to get half-way through building gcc before falling over with an obscure error message, and gcc's error messages can be *really* secure.
I think you mean obscure and yeah you have to read native compiler geek to make sense of them ;)
I followed this when I first built a toolchain for an Ipaq I needed to complile stuff onto. Worked for me but was a while back.. maybe things have changed?
http://www.mobilab.unina.it/Resources/crosscompilerHOWTO.html
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