[clue] Buying pi.

[Jim Ockers]

Hi Dave,

I've done a lot of work on ARM (via OpenWRT build kit) and I was 
wondering if you can build the distro under the ARM environment (on the 
Pi itself) or if you have to cross compile on another system then copy 
the files?

I thought many times how it would have been convenient if I could have 
built packages under a fully operational ARM dev environment, just like 
we do for x86.  Basically I'm wondering if there is a *devel set of 
packages including native gcc for the Pi.  Maybe gcc can't run without a 
MMU or something?  I never looked into why it didn't exist.

Jim

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On 2/25/13 8:03 PM, David L. Anselmi wrote:
> David L. Anselmi wrote:
>> I think I'm going to get a Raspberry Pi or two, to try out as a cheap, low power server.
> So the Pis came 2 weeks ago.  USB cables (for power) and the wrong power supply came last week.  The
> SD cards came today (and I don't have to wait for a power supply because for now the old server can
> provide).  So I got it running tonight.
>
> I thought I'd get a USB hard drive but the old server is using < 8GB of it's 30GB so I just got an
> 8GB SD card.  They're cheap enough that I don't care if it wears out.
>
> I had booted the image in qemu but it wouldn't mount /proc (not sure why, init was set up to) so I
> didn't fool with it.
>
> Now /var/lib/dpkg/status is full of nulls, so dpkg doesn't work, so the config script doesn't all
> work.  The image has a working status file so I copied it over.  Wonder why that happened?
>
> I expect other glitches but none that will be insurmountable.  It will take a while to remove the
> Raspbian cruft and copy the config over from the old server.
>
> It's funny to be going from i386 to ARM.  This server started as an Alpha way back so it's old hat
> to use a different boot loader etc.  When it outgrew the Alpha, old i386 hardware was the easiest to
> find, and now we can get something small and quiet and ARM.
>
> BTW, I really like the case that came from MCM.  The Pi snaps into the bottom and the top snaps over
> the top, very snug.  It doesn't provide access to the GPIO header but I don't need that now.  If I
> did I'd probably leave the top off.  It has rubber feet, sockets to hang it from screws on a wall,
> and it looks like I can slide a zip-tie through the vent slots on the bottom to attach it to most
> anything else.
>
> Dave
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