[Aakash-hackers] Cross compiler for Debian and Boxer scripts for Aakash

[Srikant]

On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Vasudev Kamath <kamathvasudev at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> Just a minor update, its been a while and I've not tried Aakash due to
> some personal work but today got some time to play again with boxer [1]
> and here is what I did
>
> * I added xorg and firmware-realtek from non-free to AAKASH
>   package_config scripts in tweaks.
> * I merged aakash related changes back to the master and deleted aakash
>   specific brances as per Jonas's suggestion
> * I was able to successfully build rootfs for Aakash using Debian
>   unstable.
>
> At the moment I've cloned u-boot and linux from sunxi github account but
> didn't get a proper cross compiler working on Debian using multi-arch, I
> will talk with emdebian guys and cross-toolchain guy to get my gcc-4.8
> multi-arch cross compiler working by next week and try building kernel.
>
> Srikant I've some specific question on realtek drivers, I saw in your
> documentation you mention downloading these realtek driver from 3rd
> party site, but this same driver is provided by *firmware-realtek* did
> you try this driver package?


No, I haven't tried. I was not aware of it. Thanks for pointing out. Will
try in
next build.


> is there specific reason to download it
> From 3rd party site?
>
> Also I've forked the documentation repo from github I intend to improve
> it as and when I get things working I will send in PR.
>

Sure. That would be great.


>
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