[ARMedslack] Slackware on Pandaboard

Giovanni pino.otto at gmail.com
Mon Feb 14 10:46:52 UTC 2011


Here is the project on the Pandaboard website:

http://pandaboard.org/content/slackware-pandaboard

I also found that sbopkg works fine on Slackware ARM.

Best regards,
giovanni


On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Giovanni <pino.otto at gmail.com> wrote:

> I succeeded to install full Slackware ARM on the pandaboard.
>
> I did the following:
> * sd with 2 partitions, one (vfat) for bootloaders (MLO, u-boot.bin) and
> uImage and the other one (ext2) for minirootfs
> * copy xloader (MLO), uboot and uImage from Angstrom distro on the first
> partition
> * copy Slackware ARM minirootfs on the second partition with Angstrom
> modules in the usual path (/lib/modules/...)
>
> * boot in ARMedslack
> * install all the others packages via NFS
>
> I had to make some changes to configuration files as indicated here:
> http://giovanni.wordpress.com/pandaboard/
>
> The next step is to build a kernel and modules for omap4 by myself and use
> them instead of the Angstrom ones.
>
> One question: is there any kind of package manager, such as slap-get,
> sbopkg, etc. for Slackware ARM? If not, can I use the SlackBuilds from
> slackbuilds.org? How to modify them?
>
> Best regards,
> giovanni
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Giovanni <pino.otto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I did not tried yet, but it seems possible now to boot from USB on
> pandaboard:
> >
> >
> http://pandaboard.org/content/usb-downloader-and-usb-second-stage-bootloader-omap4
> >
> > Best regards,
> > giovanni
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Carlo Caione <carlo.caione at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Feb 7, 2011, at 9:31 PM, Giovanni wrote:
> >>
> >>> What toolchain did you use for cross-compiling the kernel and modules?
> >>>
> >>> I have to start from the beginning with cross-compilation. So I accept
> advices from the people with more experience,
> >>
> >> I used crosstool-ng[1]
> >>
> >> [1] http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/projects/crosstool
> >>
> >> --
> >> Carlo Caione
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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