DevKit8000

Last we arrived my new toy, a DevKit8000 with a 7" touch LCD. The DevKit8000 is kind of a clone of the BeagleBoard. At the moment Angstrom and Android runs on it (and also Windows CE, but...). The goal is to have Gentoo on it and there are also some guys porting Gentoo to the Pandora game console which has an OMAP controller as well. Actually they develop on the BeagleBoard at the moment until at least the Pandora is available.

Using Funtoo to get a recent Gentoo

Today I created a chroot to be able to do some tests. Therefor I wanted to have a recent unstable gentoo stage. Unfortunately there are no (recent) unstable stages (or I was just blind) but there are unstable funtoo stages.

So I followed the instructions on funtoo's quick-install-howto but instead of git checkout funtoo.org I did a git checkout gentoo.org which gives me a clone of gentoo's portage tree. After emerge --sync and emerge -avDu world (which downgrades some packages) it seems to be a ordinary gentoo but with a git based tree instead of rsync based but that doesn't matter...

One question still remains, what exactly is the difference (I mean other than a git based tree) between to two, gentoo and funtoo?

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Gentoo and AVR32

Is there anyone out there using gentoo on avr32 hardware??? I really want to do that but is seems to be a lot of work :-( So I looking out for others who want to contribute...

Yeah, I've just finished compiling the avr32 toolchain using crossdev (well there're some modifications to crossdev and also the toolchain eclass). Let's see if it also works in the right way...