From: "David H. Lynch Jr." <dhlii@dlasys.net>
To: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "linuxppc-embedded \(\(\(\(E-Mail\)\)\)\)"
<linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: embedded ppc rootfs?
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 01:00:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <455AACE1.1080300@dlasys.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F6E84D87-6208-4A94-88D6-2947FDBE8927@kernel.crashing.org>
Kumar Gala wrote:
> I was wondering what people are using for their projects as
> "distro's" for their root file systems. I spent this weekend trying
> to get several of the alternatives I could find working on a ppc64
> host system with out much success.
>
> I'm interested in two aspects of this question. One, are their
> projects that I missed that people are using on ppc (eldk, buildroot,
> lfs, ltib). Two, is there an need for a better open source embedded
> distro for ppc? And if so, do people have the ability to pitch in
> some effort towards producing a better distro?
>
I am booting to an intramfs. I used busybox for the basic tools. It
is small and easy - the intramfs just merges into a single zImage.elf file.
It is supposed to be embedded so I am not looking to provide a full
development environment, just the minimum needed to run whatever
Linux applications and services a client chooses for their embedded
system.
I do not need/want a Distro (I am not against Distro's, but the key
word is embedded).
Soon we will likely do something like an fuse/sshfs mount to support
a native embedded development environment.
> - kumar
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2006-11-14 17:55 RFC: embedded ppc rootfs? Kumar Gala
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