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StephanvanSchaik / gentoo-on-arm

Documentation for installing Gentoo Linux on various ARM devices.
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Closed akaRem closed 10 years ago

akaRem commented 10 years ago

Hello! do you have any build images or deployment script? I'm very interested in installing gentoo on my cubieboard2. But I don't have experience in Gentoo at all. Is it hard to install and setup?

I plan to use my cubie mostly for opencv and i2c/gpio periphery. Is Gentoo ok for that? Or It would be better to use some other distrib?

StephanvanSchaik commented 10 years ago

No, I don't have any images at hand, because for ARM-devices it is mostly about setting up u-boot, Linux and a rootfs (using a stage3 tarball), and configuring a few things such as networking, and sshd, which is what I consider to be a minimal set-up. From there on, our choices in software, and thus packages, is likely to differ (e.g. I avoid GNOME, KDE and Google like the plague), in which case such an image would have to remain minimal, and as such the instructions on how to set up such a minimal set-up should be satisfactory. Furthermore, I don't feel like maintaining GNOME or KDE images, as that would require quite some time (and binary distributions tend to lend themselves better for such purposes).

If you feel like trying out Gentoo, which I really recommend as its package manager offers a wide variety of useful features, you can use the guides in my repository in addition to the guide on the Gentoo website. There are also some useful notes for further down the road, when you are not using chroot, for instance. Be aware though, that the learning curve may be rather steep, depending on your experience with Linux in general (so experimenting with it in a virtual environment may be a better idea).

As for your question, I2C and GPIO are mostly dependent on drivers (for which you should be looking at the Linux Sunxi wiki, or more specifically Linux Sunxi - GPIO and Linux Sunxi - I2Cdev). OpenCV, on the other hand, tends to be well-supported by most popular distributions, but as always Gentoo offers good support for it, through customisibility and by being up-to-date.

However, YMMV, and as such other distributions such as ArchLinux, Debian or Fedora may be better for your practical needs :).

akaRem commented 10 years ago

@StephanvanSchaik

Thank you very much for your response!

I think Gentoo is one of the best OS but I can't say that I have good expertise in linux to build it, so I picked Debian for now.

But some day I will build my very first Gentoo! :) BTW, "I built Gentoo" sounds like "I can do forbidden magic" and I envy your skills in a good way.

Thanks.

StephanvanSchaik commented 10 years ago

If you have any questions related to Linux Gentoo, or Linux in general, you can contact me via IRC (swabbles/SJRvanSchaik @ freenode.net), e-mail (stephan at synkhronix dot com), XMPP (stephan at synkhronix dot com), or you can always open another issue :).

akaRem commented 10 years ago

@StephanvanSchaik Ok. Again, thanks!