Gentoo on the ARM / OMAP

theCheat · n00b Joined: 23 Oct 2003 Posts: 43 Location: Atlanta

I'm looking for information on where gentoo-arm stands. I'm interested in getting gentoo working on an ARM (OMAP) processor.

Stevie77 · Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 10:26 pm Post subject:

Hi! Any news/infos here?

Regards,
Stevie

GNUtoo · Veteran Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 1919

There is linux at least for omap 1510/5910
Archos Pma400 has got such chip
there is both 2.4 and 2.6 kernel(from montavista)

http://focus.ti.com/general/docs/wtbu/wtbusplashcontent.tsp?templateId=6123&contentId=4752
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2472562992.html
http://www.openpma.org/wiki/Main_Page

katsiki · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 9:25 pm Post subject:

A breakthrough was achieved a few days ago by Nathan Ramella to "gain root access on an Archos 605 wifi running 1.7.13 firmware and execute arbitrary programs in its embedded Linux environment."

http://forum.archosfans.com/viewtopic.php?t=11144&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=140
http://code.google.com/p/arcwelder/

I don't know if there is enough interest and corresponding brain-power to develop Gentoo for this platform, but it seems a first major hurdle for enabling development has been cleared.

GNUtoo · Veteran Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 1919

but there is a problem...
the kernel modules are signed...
we must defeat that to run our own modules
a good idea is to search exploits for the 2.6.10 kernel that allow us to go in kernelspace...