Re: PATCH [0/3]: Simplify the kernel build by removing perl.

2009-01-15 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Friday 16 January 2009 07:11:09 Rob Landley wrote: ... > P.S. I still hope autoconf dies off and the world wakes up and moves away > from that. Parts of it did already :-) In KDE we switched to CMake, getting rid of automake, autoconf, libtool and m4, and many of those developers now bring

Re: PATCH [0/3]: Simplify the kernel build by removing perl.

2009-01-15 Thread Rob Landley
On Tuesday 13 January 2009 20:51:16 Jamie Lokier wrote: > Paul Mundt wrote: > > This happens in a lot of places, like embedded gentoo ports, where almost > > all of the work is sent across distcc to a cross-compilation machine. In > > systems that use package management, it is done on the host thro

Re: PATCH [0/3]: Simplify the kernel build by removing perl.

2009-01-15 Thread Måns Rullgård
Jamie Lokier writes: > Pádraig Brady wrote: >> > The $(( ... )) construct is standard POSIX shell syntax, see >> > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/95399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_06_04 >> > >> > Bash supports $[ ... ] as an alternate syntax for the same thing. >> > Perhaps you wer

Re: PATCH [0/3]: Simplify the kernel build by removing perl.

2009-01-15 Thread Jamie Lokier
Pádraig Brady wrote: > > The $(( ... )) construct is standard POSIX shell syntax, see > > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/95399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_06_04 > > > > Bash supports $[ ... ] as an alternate syntax for the same thing. > > Perhaps you were thinking of that. > > I thi

RE: ramfs/tmpfs for application partition

2009-01-15 Thread Leisner, Martin
Not sure I fully understand You basically want two blobs -- the initramfs and the application? You can expand the initramfs by copying to it...so you mount the application and run a script to copy it to initramfs before running it. marty > -Original Message- > From: linux-embed

Re: ramfs/tmpfs for application partition

2009-01-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:43, Jacob Avraham wrote: > I have a system with 128M RAM and a flash partitioned so that 10M is > dedicated to initramfs image, > 6M to application partition. And another 6M for JFFS2. > As I have plenty of RAM, I'd like to have my application directory mounted on > RAM

ramfs/tmpfs for application partition

2009-01-15 Thread Jacob Avraham
Hi, I have a system with 128M RAM and a flash partitioned so that 10M is dedicated to initramfs image, 6M to application partition. And another 6M for JFFS2. As I have plenty of RAM, I'd like to have my application directory mounted on RAM, from a pre-populated filesystem that resides in the 6M

Re: PATCH [0/3]: Simplify the kernel build by removing perl.

2009-01-15 Thread Pádraig Brady
Rob Landley wrote: > Implementing something by hand isn't _always_ a good alternative, sure. That > would be the "thinking about the problem" part. In this instance, avoiding > overflow is trivial. (If 1<<-1 didn't wrap around, it wouldn't even need the > if statement.) I don't think this af

Re: PATCH [0/3]: Simplify the kernel build by removing perl.

2009-01-15 Thread Pádraig Brady
Måns Rullgård wrote: > Alejandro Mery writes: > >> I think the $(( ... )) bash-ism can be replaced with a simple .c helper toy. > > The $(( ... )) construct is standard POSIX shell syntax, see > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/95399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_06_04 > > Bash suppor