On Monday 12 February 2007 19:04, Joey Hess wrote: > Laz wrote: > > Is the arm-el port the same as the EABI port or is that different > > again? It looked like there were about three different arm ports and > > I couldn't really work out which was best for me! > > armel and eabi are the same thing. There is also an armeb port but very > few systems need to run big endian anymore.
I remembered the armeb port after I'd sent my last message. I read somewhere that the NSLU2 is natively big endian but can run in little endian mode (could be making that up though!). > > Is it possible to dist-upgrade from debian-arm to the EABI port or is > > it a complete reinstall? If so, is it a "by hand" install or is there > > an installer image for it? > > It's a complete reinstall, or a very tricky by-hand on the fly mass > upgrade of everything. Noone has figured out a good way to do the > latter procedure, but it's theoretically possible. A complete reinstall would be possible on my "spare" Slug. I think I saw a wiki page describing the installation. > There is not yet even a distributed kernel package for eabi for the > slug, yet alone an installer, but watch this space. I'll see what info I can find: I'm quite willing to "get my hands dirty" but I'm not sure I want to try compiling a kernel on one of these things! Cheers, Laz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
