[Gpephone-devel] Buildroot for G(PE)^2

[alex zhang]

Dear Mr. Yu,

Thanks for your help. I will take your suggestion to have a look on
Scratchbox. I am trying OE this time.

Alex

On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 04:30 +0200, YU Yijun RD-ILAB-PEK wrote:
> Hi, Alex, 
> 
> Welcome to the GPE mailing list.
> You are right. If you manually build G(PE)^2 without OE, the building process is awful. OE is powerful to build everything from scratch to generate an image, however, as Nils said, it is difficult to setup an OE environment on your own computer, and it is more difficult to modify some configuration on the OE repository to adapt it to your own requirements.
> 
> Though I suggest that developers should give OE a try before you turn to other solutions, today we are working on to provide a Scratchbox based SDK. Scratchbox is a powerful and much simpler cross compiling tool. Using Scratchbox with a building script, you can build everything from scratch automatically to generate each package of G(PE)^2 respectively.
> 
> We will put relevant information these days to the website. If you can't wait, then I suggest that you can have a look on Scratchbox doc and the attached scripts. I hope it can give you some hints. :)
> 
> Regards
> YU Yijun
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: gpephone-devel-bounces at linuxtogo.org
> >[mailto:gpephone-devel-bounces at linuxtogo.org] On Behalf Of alex zhang
> >Sent: 2007年6月18日 22:38
> >To: Nils Faerber
> >Cc: gpephone-devel at linuxtogo.org
> >Subject: Re: [Gpephone-devel] Buildroot for G(PE)^2
> >
> >
> >> This depends on your target. We have AFAIK an SDK for XScale and x86
> >> inside scratchbox.
> >> @Florian: Could you comment on this?
> >Hey, I just want to port G(PE)^2 to my A1200 or A780, so your SDK is
> >suitable to me. :) When will you release it?
> >
> >> Could you give a link to this QTopia port?
> >>
> >Sorry, I checked in Internet today, I made a mistake. It's OPIE not
> >Qtopia. Really sorry for the wrong information. Here can find the
> >information but unfortunately, in Chinese ;)
> >http://www.shuaji.net/sjjc/motorola/2007/510/075264669H16IB02D7JJJ.shtml
> >
> >I also found Florian has ported G(PE)2 to A780, really great job! And
> >what about G(PE)2 running on A780?
> >http://www.linuxtogo.org/~florian/img/gpepe_a780_2.jpg
> >
> >Unfortunately, OpenEZX for A1200 is just at very early stage, maybe I
> >should wait for a new OpenEZX for A1200 released or join in A1200 kernel
> >hack. :(
> >
> >> Well, then I might have a task for you: Integrate G(PE)2 into buildroot!
> >> It can always be beneficial to have two approaches at hand.
> >> We have most of our experience in OE and see it as best suited for now.
> >> We only know little about buildroot.
> >> :)
> >OK, I try to do this. Hope it will help. :)
> >
> >Best regards,
> >AlexZhang
> >
> >
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