SELF and JFFS2????
Hi Marius, in message you wrote: > > > fs. Do you know the ELDK? > > No (not yet, at least). You can download it (for FREE - an yet e have no unpayed bills with the grocery store or the butcher or anybody else :-) - see www.denx.de/ELDK/ for instructions. You can also have if on CDROM for a nominal price of 99 EUR/$. Just let me know if we can help you :-) Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd at denx.de Testing can show the presense of bugs, but not their absence. -- Edsger Dijkstra ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
SELF and JFFS2????
Dear Steven, in message <3D1ACE16.130836D0 at imc-berlin.de> you wrote: > > No. The topic here was "creating a flash disk (JFFS2) instead of a initrd"... > > I don't know about elinos. I wanted to use DENX ELDK to create a minimal root > fs. Do you know the ELDK? Have a look at our Simple Embedded Linux Framework (SELF - see ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/LinuxPPC/usr/src/SELF/ ). Wih a minor adaption of the library list file it builts fine under ELDK, abd contains everything you need to setup a small root filesystem on any device - ramdisk as well as cramfs or JFFS2 or harddisk or DOC or ... Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd at denx.de I have been over into the future, and it works. - Lincoln Steffens in _Letters_ (1938) vol. 1, p. 463 ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
SELF and JFFS2????
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Steven Scholz wrote: > > > So you're going to delight us with a copy (just to present the idea) of > > > the > > > build scripts...!? ;-) > > > > Build scripts what for - the CDK? > > > > No. The topic here was "creating a flash disk (JFFS2) instead of a initrd"... Ah, well obviously the Build-Scripts are our work, and are not GPLed. You do get their source code with Elinos, though. The idea (which you asked for) is simple enough: Project A boots the target. It has Networking and MTD built in. An installer tool (shipped with source code) does the following: - configure the network i/f - format the MTD block dev(s). - download (streaming, actually, to allow for unlimited size) and install the kernel image and root file system of Project B > fs. Do you know the ELDK? No (not yet, at least). Regards, Marius - Marius Groeger SYSGO Real-Time Solutions GmbH mgroeger at sysgo.de Software Engineering Embedded and Real-Time Softwarewww.sysgo.de Voice: +49-6136-9948-0 Am Pfaffenstein 14 www.osek.de FAX: +49-6136-9948-10 55270 Klein-Winternheim, Germany www.elinos.com ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
SELF and JFFS2????
Marius Groeger wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Steven Scholz wrote: > > > So you're going to delight us with a copy (just to present the idea) of the > > build scripts...!? ;-) > > Build scripts what for - the CDK? > No. The topic here was "creating a flash disk (JFFS2) instead of a initrd"... I don't know about elinos. I wanted to use DENX ELDK to create a minimal root fs. Do you know the ELDK? Steven ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
SELF and JFFS2????
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Steven Scholz wrote: > So you're going to delight us with a copy (just to present the idea) of the > build scripts...!? ;-) Build scripts what for - the CDK? Regards, Marius - Marius Groeger SYSGO Real-Time Solutions GmbH mgroeger at sysgo.de Software Engineering Embedded and Real-Time Softwarewww.sysgo.de Voice: +49-6136-9948-0 Am Pfaffenstein 14 www.osek.de FAX: +49-6136-9948-10 55270 Klein-Winternheim, Germany www.elinos.com ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
SELF and JFFS2????
Marius Groeger wrote: > > On 26 Jun 2002 16:04:59 +0200, M?sz?ros Lajos wrote: > > > > Marius Groeger wrote: > > > > >> FWIW, the Elinos DevKit contains an example project ... > > > > Is the Elinos DevKit as free as Linux kernel (or for example ELDK) ? > > No, it's not. For some strange reason, grocery-stores here in Germany want > money for their stuff, so we need money to pay them. Otherwise I'd love to > send you a free copy. ;-) But seriously: of course, all the free software is > provided with full source code, including the the Elinos Linux kernel. No > licensing or royalty strings attached either. Marius, So you're going to delight us with a copy (just to present the idea) of the build scripts...!? ;-) Steven ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
SELF and JFFS2????
Marius Groeger wrote: >> FWIW, the Elinos DevKit contains an example project ... Is the Elinos DevKit as free as Linux kernel (or for example ELDK) ? Ludwig ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
SELF and JFFS2????
Steven, > has anyone successfully used DENX SELF to create an root fs _and_ put it > then on a JFFS2 partion? FWIW, the Elinos DevKit contains an example project to do just that. It allows to format the MTD device, and download and install another project onto it. Regards, Marius - Marius Groeger SYSGO Real-Time Solutions GmbH mgroeger at sysgo.de Software Engineering Embedded and Real-Time Softwarewww.sysgo.de Voice: +49-6136-9948-0 Am Pfaffenstein 14 www.osek.de FAX: +49-6136-9948-10 55270 Klein-Winternheim, Germany www.elinos.com ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
SELF and JFFS2????
Maybe you could change the Makefile so that it creates symbolic links to /bin/busybox instead of hardlinks. The only drawback to this is that you end up using one inode per link, instead of one inode for all the links. As long as you've got the space to waste this won't be a problem. Alex Steven Scholz wrote: > Hi there, > > has anyone successfully used DENX SELF to create an root fs _and_ put it then > on > a JFFS2 partion? > > I would like to create a flash disk just as easy as you can create a ramdisk > with SELF. > But for now the problem is that mkfs.jffs2 does _not_ handle (busybox) > hardlinks > correctly - well at least not the way I want. > > Thanks, > > Steven > > > ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
SELF and JFFS2????
Hi there, has anyone successfully used DENX SELF to create an root fs _and_ put it then on a JFFS2 partion? I would like to create a flash disk just as easy as you can create a ramdisk with SELF. But for now the problem is that mkfs.jffs2 does _not_ handle (busybox) hardlinks correctly - well at least not the way I want. Thanks, Steven ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
