[Qtopia-interest] what do you use for your distribution...

Lorn Potter lpotter at trolltech.com
Sun May 11 19:17:39 CEST 2008


Ian Geiser wrote:
> Greetings, I am looking at Qtopia for a project but its unclear how one 
> can easily generate a full linux rootfs for use with qtopia.  I have 
> looked at buildroot but it doesn’t use a full glibc, and scratchbox 
> doesn’t look like its able to generate a bootable image.  Emdebian looks 
> interesting but boots far to slow for my device.  So what do others out 
> there use?
> 
>  
> 
> -ian reinhart geiser
> 
>  
> 

There are lots of ways to generate a rootfs. For the Greenphone, 
Trolltech created our own, using crosstool to make the cross compiler. 
There is a script we wrote to compile the needed parts.

Of course there is openembedded, or T4. There is buildroot using ulibc 
as well that works great.


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