Sorry for the radio silence, $DAYJOB's been eating the majority of my programming time and what's left has gone to Aboriginal Linux recently, because I made a largeish design change over there (putting the base root filesystem in initmpfs and merging the native-compiler at runtime instead of compile time), and the aboriginal linux release soft-blocks the toybox release because I use "built aboriginal and then built linux from scratch under it" as my main toybox regression-smoketest.
Last night's I hit a fun bug in toybox "stat" where it doesn't remotely work on arm. (Works fine on x86 host, but 3.18 kernel built against uClibc on armv5l: the -f numbers are way off, it thinks the blocksize of ext2fs is 32 bytes.) (I hit this because the "do I need to copy the filesystem into a chroot under /home before building LFS" test _used_ to be "is / read-only", and now it's a tmpfs with 64 megs of ram in it so it's writeable but not _big_ enough. And posix "df" doesn't seem to have an easily scriptable way to get the current size of a filesystem without having to chop it out with awk, which is why I'm using stat.) I wrote some of it up at http://landley.net/notes.html which I'm trying to keep more updated, but writing status updates _there_ means I'm posting less of them _here_... Sigh. I should do a "toybox weekly news" ala http://landley.net/qemu/2008.html (for a value of "should" that means $DAYJOB still comes first hours-wise.) Speaking of which, back to kernel code... Rob P.S. Dreamhost's web archive seems to have started up again, by discarding all the pending data and thus putting another half-month hole in the archives. I mentioned that on http://landley.net/toybox but again, didn't mention it here... _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
