[arch-general] Arch Linux in Embedded Projects
Greetings all, I have been using Arch Linux now for several months and have grown quite fond of it. I'm beginning to wonder about its pervasiveness in the field and was wondering if anyone knew of embedded devices or applications that currently use Arch? In the past, I've used buildroot for embedded applications/devices that run on SBCs, but I'm thinking Arch might be better for deployments with more complex hardware configurations and/or conventional motherboards. Any insight would be greatly appreciated regarding the current state/usage of Arch in embedded projects. Thanks! Jimmy
Archlinux officially provides packages for i386/x86_64 architecture. You want to use embedded systems, so most probably, ARM and related architectures, wherein it is not actually an option. But you might want to look here: https://archlinuxarm.org/ -- Cheers Jayesh Badwaik
On Thu, Aug 11, 2016, at 11:24 AM, Jayesh Badwaik wrote:
Archlinux officially provides packages for i386/x86_64 architecture. You want to use embedded systems, so most probably, ARM and related architectures, wherein it is not actually an option.
But you might want to look here: https://archlinuxarm.org/
Thank you so much! I've been looking at that, I was more or less just curious as to whether or not people know of prior uses of Arch Linux for embedded projects that use x86 motherboards. This is really just something I'd be interested in looking at.
On Thursday, August 11, 2016 11:28:47 AM CEST Compy wrote:
I've been looking at that, I was more or less just curious as to whether or not people know of prior uses of Arch Linux for embedded projects that use x86 motherboards.
I'm running Arch on my router which uses this board[1]. That's it though. There's nothing really special about the box apart from the slow cpu (well the whole thing draws 7W under load so that's to be expected), the small form factor and the serial connection instead of a vga port. Works just fine and does what you'd expect it to do. [1] http://www.pcengines.ch/apu2c4.htm Florian
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