SLUG meeting on OpenEmbedded Monday 9/13 7pm UNH Morse 301

[Robert E. Anderson]

Directions can be found on the slug.gnhlug.org website.

This month we will go over the Open Embedded build environment.  This
build environment is designed to build from sources an entire Linux
system, much like Gentoo Linux.  The difference is that this system is
a cross compiler building for a target system that differs from the
build host.  The build and target operating systems are both Linux, but
the final execution targets are handheld devices.

The current system is nearing completion with for many of the common
Linux handhelds (Zaurus and iPAQ).  Other target platforms are also
being worked on, some of which include older laptop hardware, Dell
Axim, and tablet computers.

This system is extremely interesting on many levels.  It provides
individual packages on a fine grained scale.  It can generate
flashable images, or tarballs off the root file system (ready for NFS
or loopback mounting).  The information required for packaging is
minimal due to the object oriented designs inheritance of significant
functionality.  It provides a complete build environment for cross
compilation, including building it's own cross compilers and build
tools for the native build host, It maintains an area for shared
libraries and all the other code required for development on the
target architecture.  It's currently coded in a combination of Python
and Shell scripting.

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 Robert E. Anderson  		 	email: rea at sr.unh.edu
 Systems Programmer			phone: (603) 862-3489
 UNH Research Computing Center		  fax: (603) 862-1761
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