[maemo-developers] Armel port may become debian

[From: Rodrigo Vivi]

Hi Detlef,

I suggest you take this debootstrap dir ($DEBDIR) and generate the
rootfs.jffs2 image using this command:

sudo mkfs.jffs2 -r $DEBDIR -o rootfs.jffs2 -e 128KiB -l -n

take this zImage:
http://osmtc.indt.org/repository/mamona/zImage

 that disable nokia startup logo, allowing
you to see the boot messages,
and flash them using this command:

flasher -k zImage -r rootfs.jffs2 -f

If you have any doubt you can send me an email or talk at IRC: vivijim
at #maemo

Regards,
vivijim

On 8/28/07, Detlef Schmicker <d.schmicker at physik.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> for a long time I did not post to the list. But some minutes ago I read,
> that the armel port people try to get an official debian distribution.
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=439832
>
> Some months ago I posted a way to install debian etch (arm and armel) on
> the N800 using vncviewer as a graphical frontend.
>
> http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail//maemo-developers/2007-February/008480.html
>
> With an official armel port this becomes much more interesting, as the
> perfomance (mainly of floating point operation) becomes much better than
> the arm port and nearly all applications become supported. Even the arm
> port had quite good perfomance for most applications. E.g. I missed my
> computer algebra system (maxima) during holiday, and it was easily
> installed on debian etch, no port to maemo needed.
>
> If anybody is interested in helping to set up a nice way to install
> debian armel on N800, please send me a mail. I did a debootstrap install
> of debian / etch / arm port some weeks ago, without major problems.
>
> Detlef
>
>
>
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Rodrigo Vivi
INdT - Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia
Blog: http://blog.vivi.eng.br
GPG: 0x905BE242 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net