On 5 May 2011 23:13, Rob Landley <r...@landley.net> wrote: > On 05/05/2011 02:01 AM, Peter Maydell wrote: >> I'm afraid I don't entirely understand your file naming >> system there -- it seems to say which architecture the >> system images are for but not what board? > > Exactly. An armv5l root filesystem will run on dozens of boards. You > need to rebuild the kernel for a specific board, but not the root > filesystem or toolchain.
Doh, I should have read the readme a bit more carefully. I usually take "system image" to mean "complete disk image including bootloader, kernel and initrd as well as rootfs", which obviously does include the board-specific bits. On the other hand the readme does say the tarball includes "a kernel" so in that sense it is board-specific, presumably. (ARM kernels having alas not yet got to the point where you can build a single kernel that will boot on everything.) -- PMM
