The ARM Embedded Linux File System

Format

www.arm.com::Linux Operating System Download provides both ready made file system images and a file system configurator. The configurator consists of a set of Debian packages, together with some perl scripts to allow users to select which packages are built into the file system produced.
Both the images and the configurator are primarily intended for use with ARM supplied development boards and models. Caveat The file systems produced are considerably reduced from a standard "desktop" file system.
Many important security features have been dropped, in order to reduce size, and aid quick development.

Configurator Notes

Known Problems With ARM_Embedded_Linux-2.4.0

xorg

The file system now uses packages based on xorg-7.1.0.
This takes more notice of it's config files than the previous version, based on X11R6-4.2.1.
Recommended depths & resolutions for ARM supplied development boards are

Board	Depth	Resolution
IntegratorCP	16bpp	640x480
VersatilePB	16bpp	800x600

The supplied etc/X11/xorg.conf should be edited accordingly.
Other resolutions and depths may require changes to the file system and/or kernel.
Attached is a kernel patch to allow VersatilePB to use 8bpp, 800x600.

-- PeterPearse - 23 Aug 2007