Re: [uClinux-dev] patch file for the e2fsprogs app of uClinux-dist-20080808.tar.bz2

2008-10-23 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 21 October 2008, Michael Schnell wrote: it doesn't matter whether you are ELF/flat/fdpic Why is flat used for _some_ architectures and not for others ? it depends on the arch as to whether it is the only choice. What are the advantages of flat over ELF and vice versa ? resources

Re: [uClinux-dev] patch file for the e2fsprogs app of uClinux-dist-20080808.tar.bz2

2008-10-23 Thread Arthur Wong
Thanks for the wonderful discussion. I know little about Blackfin before that, so my understanding is: * with Blackfin, both FLAT and FDPIC ELF were supported; * with ARM (no-mmu), still only support FLAT Is it right ? 2008/10/22 Michael Schnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks a lot ! I should

Re: [uClinux-dev] patch file for the e2fsprogs app of uClinux-dist-20080808.tar.bz2

2008-10-23 Thread Greg Ungerer
Hi Arthur, Arthur Wong wrote: Thanks for the wonderful discussion. I know little about Blackfin before that, so my understanding is: * with Blackfin, both FLAT and FDPIC ELF were supported; * with ARM (no-mmu), still only support FLAT Is it right ? That is certainly correct at the moment.

Re: [uClinux-dev] patch file for the e2fsprogs app of uClinux-dist-20080808.tar.bz2

2008-10-22 Thread Michael Schnell
Thanks tor these answers ! -Michael ___ uClinux-dev mailing list uClinux-dev@uclinux.org http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/listinfo/uclinux-dev This message was resent by uclinux-dev@uclinux.org To unsubscribe see:

Re: [uClinux-dev] patch file for the e2fsprogs app of uClinux-dist-20080808.tar.bz2

2008-10-22 Thread Michael Schnell
Thanks a lot ! I should take a look at the great blackfin docs more often ! -Michael ___ uClinux-dev mailing list uClinux-dev@uclinux.org http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/listinfo/uclinux-dev This message was resent by uclinux-dev@uclinux.org To

Re: [uClinux-dev] patch file for the e2fsprogs app of uClinux-dist-20080808.tar.bz2

2008-10-21 Thread Michael Schnell
uClinux is just linux with some extras, nothing is taken out, so you are just using a regular linux kernel :-) So the general paradigm has change once more (or less) than I was aware of. Originally the was Microcontroller Linux later it was MMU-less Linux and now it's Linux for Firmware

Re: [uClinux-dev] patch file for the e2fsprogs app of uClinux-dist-20080808.tar.bz2

2008-10-21 Thread Michael Schnell
it doesn't matter whether you are ELF/flat/fdpic Why is flat used for _some_ architectures and not for others ? What are the advantages of flat over ELF and vice versa ? (In fact I don't know exactly what flat means ;) ) -Michael ___ uClinux-dev

Re: [uClinux-dev] patch file for the e2fsprogs app of uClinux-dist-20080808.tar.bz2

2008-10-21 Thread David McCullough
Jivin Michael Schnell lays it down ... uClinux is just linux with some extras, nothing is taken out, so you are just using a regular linux kernel :-) So the general paradigm has change once more (or less) than I was aware of. Originally the was Microcontroller Linux later it was

Re: [uClinux-dev] patch file for the e2fsprogs app of uClinux-dist-20080808.tar.bz2

2008-10-21 Thread Jamie Lokier
Mike Frysinger wrote: On Monday 20 October 2008, Chris Gray wrote: On Monday 20 October 2008 19:23, Jamie Lokier wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: @@ -237,9 +237,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) send_output(\n, 0, send_flag); if (outbuf) { -

Re: [uClinux-dev] patch file for the e2fsprogs app of uClinux-dist-20080808.tar.bz2

2008-10-21 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 21 October 2008, Jamie Lokier wrote: Btw, in most cases exit() should not be called in a *fork* child either, let alone *vfork*. It will flush stdio buffers - and they may get flushed by the parent when it exits too. Same for atexit() handlers. Often if there's an exit() in a

Re: [uClinux-dev] patch file for the e2fsprogs app of uClinux-dist-20080808.tar.bz2

2008-10-21 Thread Greg Ungerer
Hi Michael, Michael Schnell wrote: it doesn't matter whether you are ELF/flat/fdpic Why is flat used for _some_ architectures and not for others ? What are the advantages of flat over ELF and vice versa ? (In fact I don't know exactly what flat means ;) ) FLAT format was the first native

[uClinux-dev] patch file for the e2fsprogs app of uClinux-dist-20080808.tar.bz2

2008-10-20 Thread Arthur Wong
Hello! When build the e2fsprogs of uClinux-dist-20080808, i have met some errors, 3 files were changed to fix them: * user/e2fsprogs/misc/logsave.c - all fork should be changed as vfork * e2fsprogs/makefile link problem in the romfs directory *

Re: [uClinux-dev] patch file for the e2fsprogs app of uClinux-dist-20080808.tar.bz2

2008-10-20 Thread Jamie Lokier
Mike Frysinger wrote: @@ -237,9 +237,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) send_output(\n, 0, send_flag); if (outbuf) { -pid = fork(); +pid = vfork(); if (pid 0) { -perror(fork); +perror(vfork);

Re: [uClinux-dev] patch file for the e2fsprogs app of uClinux-dist-20080808.tar.bz2

2008-10-20 Thread Chris Gray
On Monday 20 October 2008 19:23, Jamie Lokier wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: @@ -237,9 +237,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) send_output(\n, 0, send_flag); if (outbuf) { -pid = fork(); +pid = vfork(); if (pid 0) { -

Re: [uClinux-dev] patch file for the e2fsprogs app of uClinux-dist-20080808.tar.bz2

2008-10-20 Thread Jun Sun
See question below. On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 09:39:46AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Monday 20 October 2008, Arthur Wong wrote: --- user/e2fsprogs.bak/configure2008-10-20 17:32:45.0 +0800 +++ user/e2fsprogs/configure2008-10-20 17:44:57.0 +0800 @@ -3076,7 +3076,7

Re: [uClinux-dev] patch file for the e2fsprogs app of uClinux-dist-20080808.tar.bz2

2008-10-20 Thread David McCullough
Jivin Jun Sun lays it down ... See question below. On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 09:39:46AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Monday 20 October 2008, Arthur Wong wrote: --- user/e2fsprogs.bak/configure2008-10-20 17:32:45.0 +0800 +++ user/e2fsprogs/configure2008-10-20

Re: [uClinux-dev] patch file for the e2fsprogs app of uClinux-dist-20080808.tar.bz2

2008-10-20 Thread Jun Sun
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 08:49:54AM +1000, David McCullough wrote: Jivin Jun Sun lays it down ... See question below. On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 09:39:46AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Monday 20 October 2008, Arthur Wong wrote: --- user/e2fsprogs.bak/configure2008-10-20

Re: [uClinux-dev] patch file for the e2fsprogs app of uClinux-dist-20080808.tar.bz2

2008-10-20 Thread David McCullough
Jivin Jun Sun lays it down ... On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 08:49:54AM +1000, David McCullough wrote: Jivin Jun Sun lays it down ... See question below. On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 09:39:46AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Monday 20 October 2008, Arthur Wong wrote: ---

Re: [uClinux-dev] patch file for the e2fsprogs app of uClinux-dist-20080808.tar.bz2

2008-10-20 Thread Arthur Wong
2008/10/20 Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 20 October 2008, Arthur Wong wrote: --- user/e2fsprogs.bak/configure2008-10-20 17:32:45.0 +0800 +++ user/e2fsprogs/configure2008-10-20 17:44:57.0 +0800 @@ -3076,7 +3076,7 @@ if test ${with_ldopts+set} = set; then

Re: [uClinux-dev] patch file for the e2fsprogs app of uClinux-dist-20080808.tar.bz2

2008-10-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 20 October 2008, Arthur Wong wrote: 2008/10/20 Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 20 October 2008, Arthur Wong wrote: --- user/e2fsprogs.bak/configure2008-10-20 17:32:45.0 +0800 +++ user/e2fsprogs/configure2008-10-20 17:44:57.0 +0800 @@ -3076,7

Re: [uClinux-dev] patch file for the e2fsprogs app of uClinux-dist-20080808.tar.bz2

2008-10-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 20 October 2008, Chris Gray wrote: On Monday 20 October 2008 19:23, Jamie Lokier wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: @@ -237,9 +237,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) send_output(\n, 0, send_flag); if (outbuf) { -pid = fork(); +

Re: [uClinux-dev] patch file for the e2fsprogs app of uClinux-dist-20080808.tar.bz2

2008-10-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 20 October 2008, David McCullough wrote: Jivin Jun Sun lays it down ... On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 08:49:54AM +1000, David McCullough wrote: Jivin Jun Sun lays it down ... On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 09:39:46AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Monday 20 October 2008, Arthur Wong

Re: [uClinux-dev] patch file for the e2fsprogs app of uClinux-dist-20080808.tar.bz2

2008-10-20 Thread David McCullough
Jivin Mike Frysinger lays it down ... On Monday 20 October 2008, David McCullough wrote: Jivin Jun Sun lays it down ... On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 08:49:54AM +1000, David McCullough wrote: Jivin Jun Sun lays it down ... On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 09:39:46AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: