[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Maemo ARMEL server

[From: Kalle Vahlman]

2007/2/13, Eero Tamminen <eero.tamminen at nokia.com>:
> Hi,
>
> ext Ramon Navarro Bosch wrote:
> > Thanks to Nokia and Free Software Department on Politechnic University
> > of Catalonia I could put a ARMEL server on the NET. It's a hardware (600
> > Gbytes HDD, IOP intel 600 Mhz, 512 Mb RAM ) with armel kernel and maemo
> > rootfs. It have also the debian rootfs on diferent chroot. If anybody
> > needs host compiling ( because of crosscompiling is not an option )
>
> Why cross-compiling wouldn't be an option?

For example in situations where the configure/make process needs to
run compiled binaries and qemu won't handle those. If you don't have
the hardware, it's pretty nasty businnes to start hacking those away
by hand (even glib does this, though only for docs IIRC...).

This is true for example if you build ARMv6 binaries (for N800), as
the distribution of free emulators for the ARMv6 instructions is
prohibited:

  http://marc2.theaimsgroup.com/?l=qemu-devel&m=114364317919922&w=2

Of course this would require v6 hardware, which the IOP is not according to

  http://www.debonaras.org/wiki/Info/CPUOverview

and

  http://www.intel.com/design/iio/80219.htm

so that's not a reason to use it at least...

-- 
Kalle Vahlman, zuh at iki.fi
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