Gentoo on ARM ?

SerfurJ · l33t Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 824 Location: Texas

i'm interested in building an arm gentoo for my psion. i'm using debian right now, but the package manager is too much like rpm. i'd like to get the system built on my desktop to take care of dependencies, and then transfer the files over to the psion. i would have to do a lot of work on repackaging ARMedslack to use it. a from-source distro like gentoo seems to be the perfect solution. i'm suprised there hasn't been more development in this area.

so what do i have to do to get started? it would be so easy if i could just chroot into the arm environment, but that obviously won't work. the psion i use only has a 35mhz processor, so i can't build anything on it.

i haven't found much documentation on crossdev. this is what happens when i type crossdev --arch=arm:

SpanKY · Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 7:17 am Post subject:

SerfurJ · l33t Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 824 Location: Texas

thanks for the info.

maybe building an arm gentoo isn't such a good idea (at this point in time). i just realized that the vast majority of the ebuilds in portage don't have arm support.

MickKi · Veteran Joined: 08 Feb 2004 Posts: 1179

Hi SerfurJ,

Andrew_Esh · n00b Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 7 Location: Plymouth, MN

Add this to the URL list:

http://www.arm.uk.linux.org/

Andrew_Esh · n00b Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 7 Location: Plymouth, MN

Sorry about the earlier post, but the correct URL for the ARM Linux project is this:

http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/

Andrew_Esh · n00b Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 7 Location: Plymouth, MN

Here is the list of machines and processors being supported by the Arm Linux Project:

Machines
There is now an on-line machine database available, which contains a complete listing of all supported machines.

The following list contains additional links for various machine types.

* EBSA110 Image Overview Drivers Utilities (maintained)
* RiscPC Overview Drivers Installing Utilities (maintained)
* EBSA285 Image Overview Drivers (maintained)
* NetWinder
* CLPS7110
* Archimedes Overview Drivers Installing Utilities (not maintained)
* A5000 Overview Drivers Installing Utilities (not maintained)
* LaCie NAS
* Brutus
* Compaq Personal Server
* Itsy
* L7200
* Pleb
* Integrator(maintained)

* Compaq iPAQ H3600 (Bitsy)
* IXP1200 HowTo
* Assabet
* Victor
* Lart
* GraphicsClient
* XP860
* Pangolin
* Yopy Fan page
* TI925
* RiscStation
* OmniMeter
* spot

Processors
The following is a subset of the supported processor types. Please note that Linux requires a MMU (memory management unit) in order to run. If you are looking for a version of Linux to run on a MMU-less processor, please investigate uc-Linux.

* ARM610
* ARM710
* ARM720T cores
* ARM920T cores
* StrongARM 110
* StrongARM 1100
* XScale

ticho · Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 12:27 pm Post subject:

Where can I find some tutorial/instructions on how to install those stages on Acer N10 ? I'm totally new to linux on embedded...
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shi^Yo · n00b Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 9 Location: Cyprus

ticho: if you are just interested on running linux on your Acer N10 then you should try http://www.handhelds.org and look for Familiar project. It seems that your device is not supported at the moment http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/SupportedHandheldSummary but it can boot linux using Haret bootloader.

Fortunately, for newbies like myself using iPaq, the project is impresively functional at most of things, which gives a hope to people on other devices to wait for their device to be supported. Sorry, if my quote is irrelevant with the rest of the thread, I havent read it all.

dnix · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jun 2003 Posts: 271 Location: Italy

Hi all,
Finally nobody is able to run gentoo on an ARM device? Now I own a (very) old Ipaq 3630 and I'm very happy already with the experiments I did with familiar, but now I want more! I want to try to install gentoo on it! It is possible?
Cheers,

Denix

farcaller · n00b Joined: 12 Apr 2005 Posts: 5 Location: Kiev/Ukraine

Anyone tried to run Gentoo on Palm T|T3? I have tried to load the arm kernel using midified version of bootloader from palmtelinux.sf.net, still no success

GNUtoo · Veteran Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 1919

i've an arm7or 9 (don't remember,need to run dmesg) machine with a 30GB hdd (320x240 tuchscreen,usb 1.? host)
so running gentoo instead of qtopia is very interessant
but arm is not as suported as X86 or ppc
so is there qny tutorials to build a such system or documentation as x86 handbook or installation docs
by the way previous x86 instalation manual has some wrong things in arm parties as far as it says that some tools aren't avaliable on arm but i have them on qtopia(arm)
i think portage in slow arm machine needs distcc in order to make others machine(x86,ppc...) compile it's code(with cross=compiling or it's sucessor)
for example iwconfig

Dr.Dran · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 7:50 pm Post subject: Re: gcc 3.3.3

Gentree · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 12:10 pm Post subject:

Ou-err, this does not look like a very lively debate!

Is anyone using Gentoo on ARM now?

I'm considering a TS7xxx SBC based on ARM9. All thier stuff is on Debian derivative so I'll better get used to Debian I suppose.

I was rather hoping to find a lively backwater of hardcore ARMers in Gentooland.

Seems there's a Gentoo_ARM project but not much action. Am I must missing where all the fun is ??

TIA.
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KiberGus · Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 10:23 pm Post subject:

Here is topic about gentoo on PDA. They are arm board too.
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-518041.html

IRQsRFun · Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 11:17 pm Post subject: Another link

When I read through this topic, I thought the following link may be useful...

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/cross-development.xml#doc_chap7

soth · Apprentice Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 207

Dunster · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 76

I wrote this in 2002:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2016 8:50 pm Post subject:

Dunster,

It mostly works. There are some broken build systems out there that need to be fixed.
There are also some build systems that build some code then run it as a part of the build.
If that build and run code is built for you target, you get to keep the pieces when it fails to run on the build host.
Python used to be like that but it built for me a few days ago. Perl is still like that.

If you are thinking of running armv8-a on your Pi 3, you have a lot of work to do.
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Dunster · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 76

It is great to see the success of Gentoo as a self hosting distribution and a development platform.

It seems like Gentoo is a now a very important piece in the Linux ecosystem perhaps only second to the kernel itself.

I see that Git is now supported which is amazing.

jlpoole · Guru Joined: 01 Nov 2005 Posts: 490 Location: Salem, OR

I've run Gentoo the SheevaPlug for years since the SheevaPlug first hit the market. I cross compiled and used distributed compiling with my other servers. When it worked, it was a dream.

I ran into two problems: instability in the cross-compilers and the internal hardware transformer/capacitor gave up the ghost after 2 years or so. Otherwise I did all kinds of things one might hesitate to do (like compiling GCC which took about 26 hours) and did not run into ARM specific problems. I used it for web services and BIND. I had 2 Plugs and each has had to have their power source replaced -- I used an external power source rather than paying Globalscale for a duplicate internal part that I felt would likely die in another 2 years.

jlpoole · Guru Joined: 01 Nov 2005 Posts: 490 Location: Salem, OR