[armedslack] ARM EABI

Alan Hourihane alanh at fairlite.demon.co.uk
Fri Apr 6 12:39:11 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 14:16 +0200, Sunil Amitkumar Janki wrote:
> Stuart Winter wrote:
> > 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 use ntpdate from Armedslack so that's no problem.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> We can always build alternate packages if necessary. QEMU uses a
> framebuffer as well. That's how I run X so nothing to worry about except
> graphics performance.
> 
> > Everyone else chooses linux-dri.  I may have to do some more
> > docs consulting ;-)
> >   
> 
> That depends on whether you have a 3D graphics accelerator in one
> of your computers. I only have a PDA and QEMU :-)

Indeed. That's one of the reasons I have a ViewFinder in my RiscPC :-)

Alan.





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