Hello Everyone, for a small embedded System i would like to install CentOS, but it is a RISC System. So my Question is it possible to rebuild some SRPMs for RISC? Thanks in Advance Daniel -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070118/dab4f723/attachment.sig>
Daniel Rindt wrote:> Hello Everyone, > > for a small embedded System i would like to install CentOS, but it is a > RISC System. So my Question is it possible to rebuild some SRPMs for > RISC?You'll have to be more specific. What architecture of "RISC"? If it isn't already available, you may want to check out another source like Debian. I suspect from the quality of your initial question, that you don't have the skills to built a distribution. So go to a source that already builds for your hardware. Mike
Daniel Rindt wrote:> Hello Everyone, > > for a small embedded System i would like to install CentOS, but it is a > RISC System. So my Question is it possible to rebuild some SRPMs for > RISC?Some risc systems are quite big: IBM's Power* and Sun's *sparc* are risc systems. However, for embedded systems, I suspect you're talking about small systems, and RHEL/Fedora/CentOS are quite unsuitable. Don't think about any of them unless you have _at least_ 256 Mbytes of RAM and a few gigglebytes of disk. Debian's not going to work, by itself, with a diskless system, though it probably has the cross-development tools you will need. Google around for your architecture + Linux + development. Speaking of Debian, would you believe its most popular architecture is, Not IA32/AMD-64, not Power, but ARM? Does it have to be Linux? One of my mates has a Zaurus, and he's recently installed a BSD on that. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list
Daniel Rindt wrote:> Hello Everyone, > > for a small embedded System i would like to install CentOS, but it is a > RISC System. So my Question is it possible to rebuild some SRPMs for > RISC? > >take a look at uClinux and Busybox, and the various embedded projects using them, like openwrt.
On Thu, January 18, 2007 8:23 pm, Daniel Rindt wrote:> for a small embedded System i would like to install CentOS, but it is a > RISC System. So my Question is it possible to rebuild some SRPMs for > RISC?Depending on the environment, this is probably a useless waste of CPU cycles, memory, and precious storage space :). As other suggested, you may want to look at Busybox. <semi-ot> If the system has a MMU, NetBSD is also a good option. It can fit in low memory environments, and can easily be cross-compiled on any architecture you prefer. The miniroot build infrastructure bits show how one could build a small system. Of course, you could also use precompiled binary sets plus pax and mtree. </semi-ot> -- Daniel