On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 3:46 AM, Doug Jones <dj...@frombob.to> wrote: > [snip] >> I like this approach, just remind that as far I see the code and by >> comments of the devs, the kernel implements the bare just enough to >> read files, so I think directories are not implemented at all that's >> why all is on root directory so at least basic hierarchical filesystem >> has to be implemented before we can do this solution. But directories >> will easy the organization of pictures too > > > Good point. > > So two important questions to be answered, before we get any further > into this: > > (1) Has OpenMoko made the policy decision that filenames will be limited > to 8.3?
We're using FAT. > (2) How complicated will it be to implement subdirectory support? Not a problem. We're going to do something like this when we support more languages. > Note that only one subdirectory level is really needed to implement what > has already been suggested. > > The current implementation contains 81 files, totaling 4.2GB for the > English version. Nearly all of that is in the big wiki data files > (pedia*). The other files, the ones you get when you make install, > comprise 49 files and only 18MB, and most of that is fonts (which are > often different for different languages). Correct. > We could adopt a brain-swap approach: After bootup, the user selects > one wiki and then the app switches to the selected subdirectory and > considers that to be the root until the next cold boot. All 81 files > for that particular wiki and language would be in that subdirectory, > including the big wiki data files and the fonts and the remaining files > (45 files, only 381KB, and this includes ALL of the executables!) While > the single app is running, it would not have to access (or even know > about) anything outside its current directory, so no filesystem calls > relating to directory navigation would be needed within that particular > kernel.elf. Only the initial wiki selection app (we would have to write > one) would have to understand subdirectories, and only to one level deep. Yeah that should work. -Sean _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community