ALIP mini-distro and build system user/developer stories
ARM produces a small distros for customers to use for quick prototyping and testing of new hardware. AEL/ALIP (Arm Linux Internet Platform). It is also used internally for things like model testing.
Important features are:
* Minimising overall image size (for constrained devices such as models),
* Wide range of compatible binaries/sources available
* Ability to rebuild the whole thing for optimisation or specific ABI testing (e.g armv5, armv6, armv7, with/without vfp)
This session is to examine the use-cases of this distro, and how they fit into the linaro and Ubuntu deliverables.
The focus will be on bootstrapping-
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Not started
- Approver:
- Ricardo Salveti
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- Wookey
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Wookey
- Definition:
- New
- Series goal:
- Accepted for 11.11
- Implementation:
-
Unknown
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
Whiteboard
Subblueprint: Ensure package set is cross-buildable
Subblueprint: Make package set bootstrappable
Subblueprint: Ensure flavoured toolchains work
Subblueprint: Create automatic bootstrapping tool
Subblueprint: Make busybox base work nicely
Subblueprint: Enable shrinkage mechanisms
Work Items
Work items:
Define ALIP package set: DONE
Dependency tree
* Blueprints in grey have been implemented.
