Re: A True Embedded Build?

Hi,

On Friday 12 January 2007 18:55, Kevin Fries wrote:

> As anyone tried to do a true hard core embedded build with just Minimal
> Linux and Qtopia?
>
> Forget X, go direct to the framebuffer?

Yes sure, works fine. The biggest problem when you compile this yourself is to 
get the cross compiler, kernel and all the non-trival packages built right 
(autoconf/libtool is quite a problem in this case). T2 greatly helps in this 
area - it can cross build X and co.

We do not yet have GPE/Qtopia packages, but Susan started those and they will 
show up in SVN approximately at the end of this month.

> If so, I would love to hear your experiences, both good and bad, on how
> this went.  We are currently evaluating Qtopia as a solution for the
> minimal/embedded build.

I can not comment about Qtopia too much, but we created quite some different 
embedded systems with just a frame-buffer - but usually we used E17/Evas 
based GUIs on these systems (or they where that embedded to have no GUI at 
all - just web based management).

PS: The T2 psion target run with X on FB on this very low-end devices already 
about 2 years ago: 

  http://www.t2-project.org/targets/psion.html

Yours,

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  René Rebe - ExactCODE GmbH - Europe, Germany, Berlin
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