Re: Gentoo on handhelds / workpad z50

Hi,

On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:16:10 -0500
nick thompson <nicholas.thompson1-+MseY0pMZYIAvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:

> Vladimir Pouzanov wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm working on linux port to Palm Tungsten T3 (arm-le) handheld.
> > Development tasks slowly move from kernel-space to user-space so now
> > I'm interested in some base distribution/packaging system for the
> > handheld.
> > 
> > I'm choosing from gentoo-embedded, CRUX and OpenEmbedded. OE is
> > targeted for handhelds but it has absolutely weird build system
> > (however it is similar to portage... sometimes). CRUX is optimized for
> > i686 and has no pre-requisites for cross-compilation but packages are
> > rather easily compiled inside scratchbox environment. Gentoo... I
> > haven't tried gentoo yet, but I'm doing to do so.
> > 
> > I want to know the current status of gentoo-embedded. Can I build a
> > working rootfs based on uclibc using emerge?
> > 
> I am interested in seeing a gentoo port to the IBM workpad z50. I 
> currently run netbsd on it, and have been going around and trying to see 
> what became of the linux-vr that some had working on the z50 ~2000.

z50 kernel is maintained on linux-mips.org .

Yoichi