I use this to add compact flash (system ace) device nodes where the rootfs is stored, some machine conf files does add this and in my case "device_table_add-xsa.txt" holds the static dev nodes that are only useful for xilinx platforms.
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks < fransmeulenbro...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/7/14 Philip Balister <phi...@balister.org> > > > On 07/14/2010 03:15 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote: > > > > .... > > > > 2010/7/14 Adrian Alonso<aalons...@gmail.com> > >> > >>> +# Device nodes add xsa for (system ace) > >>> +IMAGE_DEVICE_TABLES = "files/device_table-minimal.txt \ > >>> + files/device_table_add-xsa.txt" > >>> > >>> > >> I think these are normally not put in machine files. > >> (at least I normally put them in my image recipe's not in the machine > >> file). > >> > > > > Just out of curiousity, what are these files for? > > > > Philip > > > > They are tables to make a static /dev > Very useful if you are running a resource contrained (aka embedded :-) ) > setup in a static configuration, as you do not have to run udev or friends > (ofc you cannot really have hot pluggable devices). > > Frans > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-devel mailing list > Openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel > -- Saludos Adrian Alonso http://aalonso.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list Openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
