I have worked with arm...but it is a night mare for me...i don't know from where all dependency problems comes...and also cross compiled libraries freely available ... were having many issues... my test machine was i686... and I had to port a gtk application in arm board ..the os I used was montavista linux ...many of may features did not work in board..
Regards Vishak V Kurup
-----Original Message----- From: centos-devel-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-devel-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Lennert Buytenhek Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 6:17 AM To: The CentOS developers mailing list. Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] Using Centos as embedded linux.
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 09:51:59PM +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
If you need something much smaller (or a non-supported platform like ARM), I'd suggest looking at Busybox or a BSD operating system.
Debian is very popular on ARM; I think I read it has more Linux system
on ARM than on IA32!.
That's somewhat unlikely. :) But there _are_ probably an order of magnitude more ARM CPUs in the world than x86 CPUs. _______________________________________________ CentOS-devel mailing list CentOS-devel@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:45:00AM +0530, Vishak V. Kurup wrote:
I have worked with arm...but it is a night mare for me...
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..the os I used was montavista linux ...
There you have the explanation. :-) *runs*
More seriously, don't blame the CPU for the shortcomings of the distro you were using. There are enough distros that run on ARM that aren't similarly crippled.
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