Re: Emdebian

[Marc Leeman <marc.leeman@barco.com>]

> no idea what to do now.  How I got to this point is fairly confused anyway, 
> by now.

Nah, you shouldn't: embedded linux is nothing more than a normal Linux
system, but only smaller... It's also more fun to play with  >:)

> Seems to me that at this point I should use apt-get, but which packages to 
> get, and where?  Certainly not the Debian packages, as they'll be full-blown.  
> But this is the only way I know to get the kernel source.

http://www.kernel.org

You just make and configure as you used to, just add the correct
CROSS_COMPILATION prefix:

$ make ARCH=ppc CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux-uclibc- oldconfig
$ make ARCH=ppc CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux-uclibc- dep
$ make ARCH=ppc CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux-uclibc-

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