[gentoo-embedded] Freescale freescale i.MX6

2014-01-31 Thread Gareth McClean
Does anyone have hardware assisted video playback running on Gentoo using a Freescale i.MX6 processor and if so what is required? Gareth.

RE: [gentoo-embedded] planning a flash DOM x86 embedded system

2013-10-20 Thread Gareth McClean
gentoo-user" list, also, I guess it is an interesting thing that might be called a cool side effect of the recent issues. Thanks Francisco 2013/10/17 Gareth McClean I do this using a slightly modified init script, aufs3 and a squashfs. Basically the system setups a tmpfs

RE: [gentoo-embedded] planning a flash DOM x86 embedded system

2013-10-17 Thread Gareth McClean
I do this using a slightly modified init script, aufs3 and a squashfs. Basically the system setups a tmpfs as a RW overlay on top of the squashfs. Then for permanent storage there is a physical Ext4 partition overlaid again on top of the /home directory. Symbolic links are then used f

Should this work?

2009-05-19 Thread Gareth McClean
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[gentoo-embedded] Configuration of an embedded system

2008-11-19 Thread Gareth McClean
I figure this group is best placed to answer my questions, if not please feel free to point me in the right direction: a) Do any open source projects target the initial setup of an embedded system i.e. basics like manually configuring an Ethernet port, configuration of wireless networking or poss

RE: [gentoo-embedded] Emerging into SYSROOT causes packages to install in host system

2008-05-04 Thread Gareth McClean
>When I use 32bit chroots, some factor slows down file I/O a great >deal. For example I notice that emerge -uDN takes much >longer to do in a 32bit chroot. I use mount bind to share the >/usr/portage directory with the chroot, so I don't think its that >mechanism. >All I know is that updating insi

RE: [gentoo-embedded] splash help

2008-03-12 Thread Gareth McClean
Sorry I was not trying to hijack any thread and while I did not make it clear, this is for a small embedded web appliance using a solid state drive, geode processor, minimal memory, no keyboard/mouse/direct user interaction and most importantly no moving parts. The target OS has a very small footp

[gentoo-embedded] splash help

2008-03-12 Thread Gareth McClean
I'm stuck and I don't see what I am doing wrong. I want a splash screen, so I emerged splash and the 'gentoo' theme. I configured a kernel and used genkernel to perform the build for me. I triple checked the kernel has the right framebuffer options, initrd contains the requested theme and I am

RE: [gentoo-embedded] GNAP update

2008-02-29 Thread Gareth McClean
usb drives. Gareth. -Original Message- From: Janusz Syrytczyk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 February 2008 14:21 To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] GNAP update Friday 29 February 2008 15:16:01 Gareth McClean napisaƂ(a): > After reading comme

RE: [gentoo-embedded] GNAP update

2008-02-29 Thread Gareth McClean
I tried the following the GNAP user guide and was impressed how easy it was creating a small test system but I ran into the same issue with digest files as reported by Petr when I attempted to use my own kernel and add additional packages. I know this was due to me building my own stages from th