[armedslack] ARM EABI

[Alan Hourihane]

On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 11:49 +0100, Stuart Winter wrote:
> > Those are the files I am using - give those a go.  I'll rebuild
> > the installer at some point -- there has been a few changes to
> > some of the installer scripts inside the initrd, so I will have to
> > spend some time to work out what has happened.
> 
> I meant to also add that when you get this working, you would
> be best to set the system date properly once you get to
> the installer's shell.
> 
> I believe that QEMU can make the target OS' date the same as the
> host system's, but I didn't get this to work.
> 
> Also, you probably do this already but if you don't get the date set, you
> would be best to do this inside the installer:
> 
>  tune2fs -i0 /dev/whatever
> 
> I'm just rebuilding Mesa and wondering whether I made the right
> choice with 'make linux-fbdev'.  I think so since all the ARM
> devices I have ever know about use a framebuffer.
> Everyone else chooses linux-dri.  I may have to do some more
> docs consulting ;-)
> 
> Thoughts? :-)

Yes, linux-fbdev will get you a usable interface.

If I can get my RiscPC going, I'll help out with getting X and Mesa
sorted out.

Alan.