On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Krishna<[email protected]> wrote:
> 4. package management is not possible atleast for this type of image as its
> a single image containing kernel and file system , and on boot up the image
> is loaded on RAM. since it is combined, the particular partition say mtd1
> (5MB size)  will have kernel for 1 MB size and filesystem follows it , so i
> cannot mount the file system.

I'd again suggest you take a good look at the LEAF project. You can
have a shell scripted rudimentary package manager which does not
necessarily resolve dependencies.

You can split the whole file system into bare minimum and packages
that can be added on. Keeping the chunk  per transfer request smaller
increases robustness.

Kernel of 1MB seems like a regular desktop kernel. Prune it down to
the bare minimum and load modules as needed. I'm shooting without a
target here. If you describe the product, then the community could
give ideas on kernel compile options and pruning.

In case you want to discuss this in greater detail and want to take it
offline, you are welcome. I'm not sure if this will be of general
interest.

-- Mohan Sundaram.
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