Hi Daniel, On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 06:29:10PM +0300, Daniel Golle wrote: > 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 was going to start working on this today. I did some work on this and have sent the patches to the list (partially commited by juhosg): https://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2012-March/014440.html I got feedback from Kaloz regarding ubifs - we should boot from squashfs, and create ubifs after that. > 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. This is true. I'm using this setup on my kirkwood unit. I use upstream uboot. > 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'm planning to resend the patches. Also, I would like to rework scripts so we have something like: target/linux/lantiq/base-files/lib/ > 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. Me too. Luka _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
