RE: Root filesystem

[Robert Bielik <Robert.Bielik@dirac.com>]

Thanks all,

A lot of good info! I now got myself some studying to do... 😊

Regards
/Robert

> -----Original Message-----
> From: crossgcc-owner@sourceware.org [mailto:crossgcc-
> owner@sourceware.org] On Behalf Of Bill Randle
> Sent: den 30 november 2017 16:34
> To: crossgcc@sourceware.org
> Subject: Re: Root filesystem
> 
> 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 They are probably out of date, but can be modified and can give a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