Glad to see Gentoo-openmoko distro

[William Kenworthy]

Even better might be to nfs mount all the important stuff - a PXE boot
would be nice, but I havent the foggiest how to do this with uboot and
wireless ...

All the build directories, portage and maybe even the compiler and libs
could be "elsewhere".

BillK



On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 03:58 +0200, Previdi Roberto wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 1:22 AM, Al Johnson
> <openmoko at mazikeen.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>         No loss of USE - see the Gentoo Embedded Handbook, in
>         particular this page:
>         http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/index.xml?part=1&chap=5
>         
> 
> glad to hear, i will take a look tomorrow.. (too late here now)
> 
>  
>         You can do,  but the bottleneck will then be linking which
>         will happen
>         entirely on the phone. This can also be somewhat memory
>         intensive, a problem
>         on a memory-constrained device like this.
>  
> well, the linking phase seems to be a real problem.. surely you cannot
> build things such as firefox/apache/php/qt or other big packages..
> (not speaking about openoffice) probably the best thing to do should
> be to crosscompile everything on desktop and then prepare some
> "syncing" scripts, to have two identical environments.. The sync
> should be in both directions, so portage could know about file
> conflicts, externally installed packages, configuration files and such
> things.. it can also be a good occasion to make a backup :)
> 
> roby
> 
> 
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