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= The "Lenny" Debian EABI system = Details about EABI, and why you want it, are http://wiki.debian.org/ArmEabiPort This website also details how to do the lenny eabi insall: http://ted.openavr.org/Lenny-on-ts7390/ (found on: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ts-7000/message/13842) The new debian "Lenny" release (5) comes with an eabi version, called "armel" versus the standard, oabi "arm" version. Getting there is not so trivial. == Kernel: 2.6.21-ts == First create a new kernel (see ). Make sure you use the eabi cross compiler and have CONFIG_ARM_THUMB=y CONFIG_AEABI=y CONFIG_OABI_COMPAT=y set for the kernel. This should boot with the old "etch" (release 4) version. == Changing the system == Not so simple, and I am not there yet. First attempt using "apt-get dist-upgrade" failed, in that it upgrades to the "arm" and not the "armel" version. Next attempt: follow these http://wiki.debian.org/ArmEabiHowto, but then different. Try using debootstrap, info is here: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/426 First get it, then run it apt-get install debootstrap debootstrap --verbose --arch armel --foreign lenny /armel-chroot http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian Next, get some coffee and grade your homework, since this takes a while. Oh, and the card you do this on needs to be big enough. I used an 8GB microSD with an adapter. Strangely, this got a whole bunch of stuff, but it did NOT seem to include "apt-get", an essential part to continue? Also /etc/apt/sources.list had an invalid entry. To fix this, unpack and install stuff from /var/cache/apt/archives, some require the --force-depends flag to resolve linked dependencies. (libgcc1 depends on libc6 which depends on libgcc1). There are a lot of dependencies to get apt-get going, but they are all in the archives. When this is done edit the /etc/apt/sources.list to have deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian lenny main and run apt-get update This should now get all the available stuff, but not install anything. At this point, go to "init 1", and complete the switchover: I have no name!@solo:/mnt# mkdir old_arm I have no name!@solo:/mnt# mv bin sbin lib usr var old_arm/ I have no name!@solo:/mnt# ls old_arm/ bin lib sbin usr var I have no name!@solo:/mnt# cp -a /bin /sbin /lib /usr /var . I have no name!@solo:/mnt# cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian lenny main I have no name!@solo:/mnt# cat etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian etch main I have no name!@solo:/mnt# cp /etc/apt/sources.list etc/apt/ I have no name!@solo:/mnt# Send a quick prayer to the silicon gods and reboot: "exit" first! Then "/sbin/shutdown -r now". You get some errors. Finish with apt-get dselect-upgrade and reboot again. This did not work. NO NETWORK. FFFF. dpkg --install /var/cache/apt/archive/net-tools* # gives ifconfig .... ncurses-bin* .... sed* ... lsb-base* ... modules* # to get modprobe ... mawk Now a trick, link mawk to awk ... ifupdown ifup eth0 apt-get --yes dselect-upgrade .... In the end, I got a working system, but there was more "apt-get" needed than I thought should be required. Well, at least it works.

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