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Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:11:59 +0530
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Subject: Re: Digest for openarmlab@googlegroups.com - 1 Message in 1 Topic
From: Jayanth Acharya <jayacha...@gmail.com>
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Thanks Suchakra. That is very helpful.

May I take the liberty of asking the community here 2 more questions --

1. What do people feel about the support ecosystem around specific Linux
distros ? In my quest for a lean-n-mean (fat-free) disto I've had some
amount of frustration with Angstrom pre-built images (from narcissus), for
IGEPv2 (rev.C) boards (OMAP DM3730 1GHz, 512MB/512MB), which doesn't boot
with the pre-built images. Am yet to try building an image, might fare
better. Questions left on Angstrom list, don't seem to fetch many useful
answers ? So wondering if it'd be better to move to another distro where I
might get better community support ?

2. Is someone aware of some good independent consultants or small companies,
good with board level design ? Guys who can do some extension/modification
work on ARM boards/COM's ? I've come accross several who make tall claims,
but after having burnt some hard-cash, are yet to deliver anything working.
I suspect most of the folks to be guys who can deal with the software, or
BSP level at most... at HW level, the skill seems to be really rare.

If aware of someone like that, kindly drop me a mail offlist.

cheers,
Jay

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Suchakra <sucha...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have used Poky before with qemu. Check the manual on their site for
> details. It works well and uses its own qemu based emulator. Also, prebuilt
> kernel images are available for qemu on qemu's site as an 'arm-test'
> tarball. It contains a kernel for Integrator/CP board and a small
> filesystem. Haven't used it with the narcissus' rootfs image though.
>

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Thanks Suchakra. That is very helpful.<br><br>May I take the liberty of ask=
ing the community here 2 more questions --<br><br>1. What do people feel ab=
out the support ecosystem around specific Linux distros ? In my quest for a=
 lean-n-mean (fat-free) disto I&#39;ve had some amount of frustration with =
Angstrom pre-built images (from narcissus), for IGEPv2 (rev.C) boards (OMAP=
 DM3730 1GHz, 512MB/512MB), which doesn&#39;t boot with the pre-built image=
s. Am yet to try building an image, might fare better. Questions left on An=
gstrom list, don&#39;t seem to fetch many useful answers ? So wondering if =
it&#39;d be better to move to another distro where I might get better commu=
nity support ?<br>
<br>2. Is someone aware of some good independent consultants or small compa=
nies, good with board level design ? Guys who can do some extension/modific=
ation work on ARM boards/COM&#39;s ? I&#39;ve come accross several who make=
 tall claims, but after having burnt some hard-cash, are yet to deliver any=
thing working. I suspect most of the folks to be guys who can deal with the=
 software, or BSP level at most... at HW level, the skill seems to be reall=
y rare.<br>
<br>If aware of someone like that, kindly drop me a mail offlist.<br><br>ch=
eers,<br>Jay<br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 6:00=
 PM, Suchakra <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:sucha...@gmail.com">s=
ucha...@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p=
x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I have used Poky before with qemu. Check th=
e manual on their site for details. It works well and uses its own qemu bas=
ed emulator. Also, prebuilt kernel images are available for qemu on qemu&#3=
9;s site as an &#39;arm-test&#39; tarball. It contains a kernel for Integra=
tor/CP board and a small filesystem. Haven&#39;t used it with the narcissus=
&#39; rootfs image though. <br>
</blockquote></div><br>

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