[nylug-talk] Is anyone interested in embedded Linux??

[Brandorr]

On 8/23/07, Ormund Williams <ormundw at panix.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 18:45 -0400, Brandorr wrote:
> > I myself like tinkering with and customizing the OpenWRT distro... I'd
> > love to share what I have been doing.
> >
> > Is anyone else interested, and is anyone else playing with any flavor
> > of embedded Linux. (Whether it is on a phone/pda, router, or other
> > device.)
> >
> If you get together after Sept 20 (ESC in Boston ends on the 20th) I
> would love to come and do a little show-n-tell. I have a couple of
> projects using Linux, one uses a single board PC to provide a UI for a
> medical device, the other, I'm still designing the hardware, using an
> ARM based CPU from Atmel.
>
> I started out using Debian but switched to buildroot to get better
> control of what went into the file system tree. Buildroot is a bunch of
> make files that download and build everything from source, using
> fakeroot and other utilities it builds a file system image on your host
> machine. That image can be ext[23], cramfs, romfs, a flash file system
> or something else, I chose to compress an ext2 image, use syslinux to
> boot of a CF card and mount my file image in ram. The whole thing boots,
> power-on to usable GUI in less than 25 seconds.
>
> I should be at Jim's presentation next NYLUG meeting on the 29th maybe
> we can make 'first contact' then.

That would be great, as I haven't had a chance to play with Kamakazi
or buildroot yet!! I'll see you on the 29th.

-Brian

P.S. - How do you keep state on the CF card boot, if you are using
compressed ext2 read only?

>
> Regards
>
> __
> Ormund
>
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