Gentoo on PDA/Pocket PC??

memmo · n00b Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 1

hey you guys, I just want to say good work. I'll watch these posts as often as I can.
I'm a prowd owner of a wonderfull hx4700 device with the lame m$ software and I'm looking forward to an english version of the howto.

I'm curious though how long does compiling take on this machine?

reguards
memmo

KiberGus · Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 2:15 pm Post subject:

It takes a lot of time. Actually, you can crooscompile most part of programs on your fast desctop computer, but some of them can't be crosscompiled and some of them (bash for example) works strange when it is crosscompiled.
It may take about 2 hour per package of medium size.

alexxy · Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 8:32 pm Post subject:

We have working overlay for handhelds

avx · Advocate Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 2152

Well, I just stumbled over this and must say, I'm impressed.
I've got an quite old Compaq/HP iPAQ 3970 (datasheet @ hp) and would like to know, if you think it's possible to use Gentoo on it - as reported on handhelds.org, familiar is known to run.

Thanks for your (hopefully coming) response and tia,
ph

alexxy · Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 11:57 am Post subject:

I think it can work... You can try to use my stages and your custom kernel...
Try dualboot variant...
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Kytrix · n00b Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 13

The Nokia N800 is availlable now,
i prefer the 770 design but the N800 is faster and had an integrated webcam !
you can also transform it to a GPS system by buying package with GPS bluetooth antena and Navicore software !

Neskweek · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:47 am Post subject:

Hi folks !

I've got an hx4700 myself and I'm eager to eradicate Windows from it.

I've tried the familiar (with Opie/GPE) but I'm not satisfied with them.

Then I found this thread and I'm veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery interseted using gentoo on my small budy

I've tried to install it (managing to understand as I could, since I don't know russian) but I failed.
I would love to help on this project !

Please , pretty please throw us, an English wiki (or just an hoxto on this forums to start )

Really good job by the way

See ya

KiberGus · Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 5:38 pm Post subject:

Gussian HOWTo is avaliable here:
http://ru.gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gentoo_ÎÁ_ëðë
At the moment I'm translating it to english, it would be avaliable at:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_PDA
I'll write, when I finish.

KiberGus · Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 7:12 pm Post subject:

Translation done. Short HOWTO is avaliable at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_PDA . There may be (defenetely are) grammatic and other mistakes, fix them if notice ones.

Neskweek · Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 8:20 am Post subject:

Wonderfull !
Many Thanks

I'll try that this Week end

alexxy · Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 8:32 am Post subject:

For now overlay for pda's avalieble via layman
You can simply add it

alexxy · Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 9:10 am Post subject:

Today I'll upload stge with eabi and new kernel on ftp://gentoo.ru
NOTE this is only bootstrap stage
This means no X server...
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alexxy · Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 12:54 pm Post subject:

I've uploaded stge with eabi and new kernels

Kernels here

Lubomir · Apprentice Joined: 17 Dec 2005 Posts: 155

Damn...,i have sell my dell x50v because i hate windows...

KiberGus · Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 9:33 pm Post subject:

gnueabi stage for xscale (pxa25x) processors is avaliable:
ftp://gentoo.ru/projects/handhelds/stages/stage3-armv5te-xscale-gnueabi-20070303.tar.bz2
It contains system and some other useful packages, such as portmap. It doesn't contain X, so if you want X use old non gnueabi stage, wait while we compile it or do it yourself.

alexxy · Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 2:47 pm Post subject:

I've just uploaded some packages for arm pdas
And rsync service start working ;-)

Binary packages avalieble for iwmmxt (pxa270) and xscale(pxa25x pxa26x) machines
via ftp

KiberGus · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:35 am Post subject:

xscale packages uploaded.

MorpheuS.Ibis · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 22 Apr 2006 Posts: 143

can you make a strongarm package? i have my old h3870 and would like to try dual-booting it but am kind of noob in cross compile and non x86 arch...thanks

KiberGus · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:37 pm Post subject:

As I understand, strongarm is not armv5, so our toolchains are not suitable for compiling for it. Crosscompiling from amd64 doesn't works for some packages, so to build packages for strongarm I would have to build crosscompiler on my PDA and build system using it. It's too long, it takes about 15 hours to build gcc only, so all process would take nore than a week. I want to build usable system for one arch first.

MorpheuS.Ibis · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 22 Apr 2006 Posts: 143

i have gcc under windows (latest pgcc by mamaich) working no problem (or at least for my simple C++ programming) so i think that strongarm is compatible with other arm CPUs, only with other march (like pentium2 as strongarm and pentium3 as xscale) so i see no problem in this...but again, i know nothing about crosscompiling so i can be completely wrong... but thanks anyway

alexxy · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:47 pm Post subject:

According to this specs

MorpheuS.Ibis · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 22 Apr 2006 Posts: 143

so....can you make a howto for me? crossdev + emerge system + dualboot somehow? only thing that i have is an iPAQ h3870 with WM2003 (2GB SD card) and a couple of x86 gentoo PCs... thanks a lot guys

alexxy · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 6:18 pm Post subject:

First of all you need to build crosstoolchain

KiberGus · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:56 pm Post subject:

EOF · Guru Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 345 Location: Usingen

The Nokia 770 is a Linux PDA
Running software
http://downloads.maemo.org/
http://maemo.org/maemowiki/ApplicationCatalog2006

Hi! I really want to try putting Gentoo on my Nokia 770. There is already a boot manager so you can dualboot

http://maemo.org/maemowiki/HowTo_EASILY_Boot_From_MMC_card

I use this with an 1 GB card. There is also Scratchbox which makes porting apps easy (there is also an install howto):

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-348979-highlight-scratchbox.html

Isnt it possible to install Gentoo the usual way over scratchbox?

Is there someone who want to join this attempt :?: