Hi everybody! I've been working on making preinit, firstboot and sysupgrade work with UBIFS on a kirkwood system during the past week. I noticed that the current way things are done is very specific for JFFS2 and there is no abstraction which allows different filesystems for the overlay. It's of course possible to just slightly modify things and add functionality for UBIFS, but besides being ugly/misleading (JFFS2 being mentioned but not actually used) from what I can see it needs changed in base-files in any way and cannot be done only by adding files via target/linux/kirkwood/base-files-*
Is anyone else working on it? I recently also updated Das U-Boot to the most recent stable version which now got very well working support for UBIFS, in that way, the bootloader can (similarly to GRUB on x86) read the kernel-uImage from the filesystem which makes things much more transparent for the user. As I got no reaction on that at all, I seems like the kirkwood target is abandoned, which is a petty for that very developer-friendly platform which is the first embedded platform for many new-commers in the field. What's the situation? I'll start polishing and posting proposals on that topic (UBIFS on kirkwood incl. image-generation, preinit/firstboot, sysupgrade, ...) and would be happy to see these things discussed / included. Cheers Daniel _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
