Lightweight Linux Distribution

[Pieter-Jan]

Hello,

Are there any other options to the 2.2G Ubuntu image to put on the Parallella? I want a lightweight system as I'm not going to use it as a desktop computer ...

Thanks

PJ

[greytery]

[Pieter-Jan]

Ok thanks. I'll try it ... I think 304Mb is still a crazy amount of storage space for a minimal OS (1/2 of a CD!!!) but it might be a good place to start ...

Any other options?

[greytery]

PJ,

I know what you mean. But AFAIK, nothing off-the-shelf so you'd have to roll your own, say from ARCH.

Also, take a look at FreeRTOS. There's supposed to be a build that supports the Zynq Dual ARM.

Cheers,

[9600]

You should be able to use any Linux distro/system that has an armhf architecture build root filesystem, and you would just use this in place of the official Ubuntu one, with the stock BOOT filesystem alongside that and containing the FPGA bitstream, kernel and devicetree database (the Parallella-specific stuff). Of course, depending on your particular application you may need to then also build the Epiphany SDK and perhaps COPRTHR SDK on your new system.

I seem to recall that someone was also working on FreeBSD support, so that may be another option at some point if Linux is not a strict requirement (and the BSD systems tend to have minimal install options).

Cheers,

Andrew

[Pieter-Jan]

Ok thanks. I'll try to get the individual parts to build first and then I'll look further for a solution