Comments on: cross-compiling for the SheevaPlug (kernel, distcc)

By: mark

mark — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:25:26 +0000

Updated the blog post with instructions on how to obtain the latest source along with patches for SheevaPlug.

John, thank you for the hints. I hope the new instructions yield in an even better result than compiling stock kernel sources.

By: John Poole

John Poole — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:04:33 +0000

3.cd /usr/src/linux
might read
3.cd /usr/src/linux/linux-2.6.31.12 (or whatever version your oneshot emerge installed)

By: John Poole

John Poole — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:44:14 +0000

For paragraph #1 of the nonSheevaPlug,
# or emerge –oneshot “>=sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.31″

By: corncrake

corncrake — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:37:07 +0000

Solved, compiled and working – thanks for your help

By: corncrake

corncrake — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:48:33 +0000

Thanks Mark,

The background to this is that I am trying to get the Sheevaplug to run the following program – YAMJ – http://code.google.com/p/moviejukebox/ YAMJ is a CLI moviejukebox program that scans your video library in order to extract information like: year, summary, posters etc… It has a Linux version that requires java 1.6 and MediaInfo – http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en . Java supports the ARM architecture but MediaInfo only has the i386 complied for download. So I was wonder could I use your approach to compile a version suitable for the Sheeva, but as I am a beginner at this I wanted to see if there was a obvious reason why this would not work…

By: mark

mark — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:51:19 +0000

corncrake, if your question was more specific I could help you more.

Given you didn’t replace the Linux distribution on your plug and you only want this program, try to compile it. First, install prerequisities by:

apt-get update
apt-get install build-essential

By that you should have everything needed to compile dependencies and the application itself.

If it requires X11 (KDE, Gnome, Fluxbox… any window manager) you will either have to buy an USB attachable display or install VNC and connect from another computer to the SheevaPlug to see the ‘picture’. But then, due to the limited flash storage, better attach an external harddrive and install X11 (…) there.

Perhaps any of my readers knows something similar that runs on console and depends on libmediainfo?

By: corncrake

corncrake — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:38:10 +0000

Hi I am a new owner of a Sheevaplug (debian 2.6.30.2) and I am trying to use a open source program called MediaInfo – It looks like there is no armv5tel version available so I was thinking of compiling my own… any pointers??

By: mark

mark — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:43:22 +0000

Thanks for the pointer! I have already had incorporated that patch in my kernel trees, amongst others for SDHC cards.

By: roby

roby — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:00:39 +0000

please add a note to apply this patch to the kernel:
http://computingplugs.com/index.php/Fixing_SDHC_access_in_the_Orion/Mainline_kernel
because there is a bug in the sdhc handling that make it brutally crash!

By: Mark’s Blog » Gentoo on the SheevaPlug

Mark’s Blog » Gentoo on the SheevaPlug — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:03:55 +0000

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