[arch-ports] SuperH port

Oleg Finkelshteyn olegfink at gmail.com
Wed Jan 17 12:55:27 EST 2007


2007/1/17, Alexander Baldeck <kth5 at archlinuxppc.org>:
> Oleg Finkelshteyn wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am a HP Jornada 680 user.
> > This is a sh3-based handheld running linux from the jlime project
> > (http://jlime.com).
> > All the development and packaging is currenly done using OpenEmbedded,
> > but I'm not satisfied with the process of crosscompiling something
> > using it.
> > So, I came up to an idea to port Arch to this handheld, as I have
> > working kernel it shouldn't be a hard task. Then I need a
> > cross-development environment to compile some stuff.
> > How should I do it? Was there any work done on making an Arch-based
> > crossbuild environment?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
>
> You may have some luck with the pkgbuilds of these toolchains [1] using
> distcc on your handheld. In case you don't have a sufficiently big
> storage device built in, I recommend to run NFS over usb-net. I have
> been working on SH4 (dreamcast) for a while but with no bog results.
> Simply using the debian disc available doing the above mentioned thing
> using the broadband adaptor.
>
> If you simply want to build a working system, I'd recommend buildroot [2].
>
> Cheers,
>
> -T
>
> [1] http://kth5.telekommunisten.net/crosstools
> [2] http://buildroot.uclibc.org

Thanks, but can't I do all the things directly on my host machine, as OE does?

-- 
Best regards, Oleg Finkelshteyn




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