[oe] OE Booth during fosdem

[gerwin van der kruis]

Op woensdag 14-02-2007 om 12:53 uur [tijdzone -1000], schreef Jim
Thompson:
 
> And I'm willing to throw cash, hardware and time at this.
> 
> Yes, we sell WRAP boards, but I'm not looking to get a bunch-o-free  
> development out of the process.  (We sell a Gateworks ixp42x board  
> too, just to be perfectly honest.)
> 
> Years ago, I ran (and owned) 'musenki' (google for it or look here:  
> http://he-colo.netgate.com/~jim/Musenki/.  We had build a  set of  
> Motorola 8245/8241 boards, and I'd made linux run on them.  I  
> remember spending a horrific amount of time with a (very) early  
> version of "buildroot".  OE is so much more sophisticated that I'm a  
> bit taken aback.
> 
> The OE learning curve is still quite steep, but I think it would be  
> less steep with a) a bit more documentation and b) an EZ way to start  
> creating "little distros" that
> run on PCs using it.

I remember we had this discussion before , the problem is the
bootloader, for example grub requires some extra handlings to get 
installed probarly. 

I also experimented a bit with disk on modules which were much 
faster than the compact flash and much cheaper as well. 

I think if you write a script which automate the installation of for
example grub and than copies automatically the files over to cf you are
finished , I did it once long time ago for an embedded voip pabx. 

As Koen said I am working on x86 projects like wifi-radio (with a
mini-itx board and some small additions) a set top box and a thin
client.So we are working on it !!

I will have a look if I still can find the software I made that time 
for putting the image directly on the flash (I wrote it to produce some
goods)

Regards, 

Gerwin