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From: Bill Randle <billr@neocat.org>
To: crossgcc@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Root filesystem
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 15:34:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171130073352.21207a1f@neosoft.neocat.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5A2015E7.10707@gmail.com>

On Thu, 30 Nov 2017 14:29:59 +0000
Josh Branning <lovell.joshyyy@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 30/11/17 08:13, Robert Bielik wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > New to the tool! I'm planning to use this for setting up a complete
> > build toolchain for Raspberry Pi 3. This means building f.i.
> > ALSA/GStreamer/LADSPA etc. etc. and installing them in the proper
> > rootfs which will be packaged together with the toolchain.
> >
> > I suspect this is out of the scope of the ct-ng tool  ? Maybe
> > someone has ideas or pointers on how to accomplish this ?
> >
> > Regards
> > /Robert
> >
> >
> >
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I once did something similar for the olinuxino lime A10.
> 
> I compiled uboot and a kernel and used an arch linux arm rootfs.
> 
> The scripts can be found as a tar.gz
> 
> They are probably out of date, but can be modified and can give a 
> skeleton for you to work with.
> 
> http://www.publicsite.org/J05HYYY/software_downloads/olinuxinolime-archlinux.tar.gz
> 
> I'm not quite sure about the bootloader in the pi however, whether or 
> not it can use uboot. The pi needs a blob to run IIRC.
> 
> You may also wish to look at https://github.com/RPi-Distro/Pi-gen
> which creates the isos for raspbian from the pi foundation.
> 
> Josh

In addition to buildroot, you can also use the Yocto Project
(https://www.yoctoproject.org). There are people that have added R-Pi
"layers" for the Raspberry-Pi. One of them is this one:
https://github.com/jumpnow/meta-rpi .

    -Bill

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-30 15:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-30  8:13 Robert Bielik
2017-11-30  8:20 ` Baruch Siach
2017-11-30  8:27   ` Robert Bielik
2017-11-30 14:30 ` Josh Branning
2017-11-30 15:34   ` Bill Randle [this message]
2017-11-30 15:36     ` Robert Bielik

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