From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rob Landley Subject: Re: [Celinux-dev] CELF Project Proposal- Refactoring Qi, lightweight bootloader Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 01:17:17 -0600 Message-ID: <200912270117.18130.rob@landley.net> References: <4B29EC68.1040109@0xlab.org> <20091222111250.GW22533@pengutronix.de> <4B3146E9.3010101@warmcat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4B3146E9.3010101@warmcat.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" To: celinux-dev@tree.celinuxforum.org Cc: Andy Green , Robert Schwebel , linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 22 December 2009 16:23:37 Andy Green wrote: > On 12/22/09 11:12, Somebody in the thread at some point said: > > Hi Robert - > > >> (Personally I used Fedora ARM port and RPM, but any distro and > >> packagesystem like Debian workable on ARM would be fine). > > > > Until now, we are using the "build it yourself" approach with ptxdist, > > basically because of these reasons: > > > > - If something goes wrong, we want to be able to fix it, which means > > that we must be able to recompile everything. Having the source is no > > value by itself, if you are not able to build it. > > Fedora provides a whole solution there, with the restriction it's > designed for native build, not cross. QEMU: it's not just for breakfast anymore. Rob -- Latency is more important than throughput. It's that simple. - Linus Torvalds