On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 08:49:37AM +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote:
> Hi Lennart,
> 
> On 22/03/13 23:41, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > The fact we can recreate the cpio archive and update the uImage from
> > the kernel and cpio archive is great.  No recompile crap to deal with
> > the way romfs and such have tended to need.  For us building the kernel
> > and the filesystem are totally seperate issues.
> 
> I don't follow you here. How does using a ROMfs mean that building
> the kernel and filesystem are not separate?

Well the way I saw it done when I looked at romfs, was that it was part
of the kernel image so you had to do the linking with the romfs files
in place to get the kernel image.

Can you replace the romfs without using the kernel source tree, with
just a vmlinux (or equivelant) file around?

-- 
Len Sorensen
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