[J-core] Userspace for J-Core (was Re: Sorry for the radio silence.)

[Tim Ansell]

On 9 May 2017 at 06:06, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
<snip>

> I'm working on https://github.com/landley/mkroot as a replacement for
> aboriginal linux, and the j-core website's build instructions should be
> completely rewritten when I can cut a release of that, but it depends on
> toybox code that's only in the git repository right now, so I have to
> cut a toybox release first. If you want to try it now you can do the
> mcm-buildall.sh stuff in the README to get toolchains, and then do:
>
>   cd download
>   git clone git://github.com/landley/toybox
>
> So it builds against toybox git instead of the last release tarball. (I
> don't have a kernel config checked in for j-core yet either so adding
> "kernel" to the command line won't work for that target, give me a
> couple more days...)
>
<snip>

>From a userspace point of view, my recommendations would be;

 * You should really look at supporting buildroot (https://buildroot.org/)
*and* OpenEmbedded / yocto (https://www.openembedded.org/wiki/Main_Page //
https://www.yoctoproject.org/). These two are probably the most well known
tools for creating embedded distributions and will be familar to most
embedded developers.

 * The other big thing that would be awesome to see is Debian support.
Looking at https://wiki.debian.org/SH4, I'm assuming that is waiting for
you to support SH4 instructions?

Keep up the good work.

Tim 'mithro' Ansell
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