Re: building Rootfs

2008-07-09 Thread Marek Skuczynski
Haller, John H (John) pisze: What else is there out there for rootfs, really? A hack from every embedded company there is? I'm more after what people actually *use* and what is community driven here, not so much opinions on what is best (which will probably be the unwanted side effect of this m

Re: building Rootfs

2008-07-09 Thread Peter Korsgaard
> "Linus" == Linus Walleij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Linus> If you know some way of sneaking a device node into a Linus> .tar file created ENTIRELY running as a regular user, Linus> tell me! You just mentioned it yourself - fakeroot. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard -- To unsubscribe from this

Re: building Rootfs

2008-07-09 Thread Robert Schwebel
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 05:52:34PM -0700, David VomLehn wrote: > We do this all the time. We have a very minimal root filesystem and > aren't currently using any of the frameworks for building root > filesystems, so everything is done with make. In general, we create tar > files for each piece.

Re: building Rootfs

2008-07-09 Thread Robert Schwebel
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 02:14:04AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: > > They are both build systems for userlands, or whole embedded linux > > systems. I cannot speak for OE as I don't really know it in detail. > > Anyone have experience with both? I'd really like to have them > contrasted and, well you

Re: building Rootfs

2008-07-08 Thread Robert Schwebel
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 01:53:46AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: > 2008/7/8 Wolfgang Denk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> 3. Getting files into the filesystem when the development > >> system does not allow root access. > > > 3. is a non-issue for most common file systems. > > The only one thing I eve

Re: building Rootfs

2008-07-08 Thread Wolfgang Denk
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > >> 3. Getting files into the filesystem when the development > >> system does not allow root access. > > > 3. is a non-issue for most common file systems. > > The only one thing I ever ran into trouble with was device nodes, No, this is not a proble

Re: building Rootfs

2008-07-08 Thread David VomLehn
Linus Walleij wrote: If you know some way of sneaking a device node into a .tar file created ENTIRELY running as a regular user, tell me! We do this all the time. We have a very minimal root filesystem and aren't currently using any of the frameworks for building root filesystems, so everythi

Re: building Rootfs

2008-07-08 Thread Linus Walleij
2008/7/7 Robert Schwebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 10:34:11PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: >> Robert, can you brief us of how ptxdist fits together with >> OpenEmbedded? What does these two projects actually share? Where do >> they do similar things in parallel for example? >

Re: building Rootfs

2008-07-08 Thread Linus Walleij
2008/7/8 Wolfgang Denk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> 3. Getting files into the filesystem when the development >> system does not allow root access. > 3. is a non-issue for most common file systems. The only one thing I ever ran into trouble with was device nodes, these cannot be reproduced any way, n

Re: building Rootfs

2008-07-08 Thread Wolfgang Denk
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > There are three issues in building an embedded cross-filesystem: > 1. Identification of the files to put into the filesystem. > 2. Stripping or extracting debug symbols from the filesystem. > 3. Getting files into the filesystem when the development > s

Re: building Rootfs

2008-07-07 Thread Robert Schwebel
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 06:24:48PM -0500, Haller, John H (John) wrote: > There are three issues in building an embedded cross-filesystem: > 1. Identification of the files to put into the filesystem. > 2. Stripping or extracting debug symbols from the filesystem. > 3. Getting files into the filesyst

RE: building Rootfs

2008-07-07 Thread Haller, John H (John)
> > What else is there out there for rootfs, really? A hack > from every embedded company there is? I'm more after > what people actually *use* and what is community driven > here, not so much opinions on what is best (which will > probably be the unwanted side effect of this mail > anyway...) >

Re: building Rootfs

2008-07-07 Thread Robert Schwebel
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 10:34:11PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: > Robert, can you brief us of how ptxdist fits together with > OpenEmbedded? What does these two projects actually share? Where do > they do similar things in parallel for example? They are both build systems for userlands, or whole em

Re: building Rootfs

2008-07-07 Thread Linus Walleij
OK Robert wrote this on ARM-Linux mailinglist but the discussion belongs on linux-embedded, so I'm moving it there, the suggested ptxdist ML seems inapropriate for the entire embedded community. 2008/7/7 Robert Schwebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 06:01:51PM +0800, Eric Miao wr