From: Hamish Moffatt <hamish@cloud.net.au>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] r21760 and device_table.txt problems
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:58:15 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080419145815.GB12780@cloud.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2590773a0804181647y4200320du60683223dd30a1d4@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 07:47:34PM -0400, Christopher Taylor wrote:
> First, thank you all for your efforts.
>
> I'm using r21760 and it appears that the device nodes aren't getting
> populated. I realize that the root filesystem is now created in
> buildroot/project_build_ARCH/PROJECT/root but I don't see the device
> nodes specified by the device_table.txt
>
> I'm assume I'm missing a step that tells buildroot to read the device
> table while it creates the root file system referenced above, but I
> didn't find it via make menuconfig.
Once the build finishes the device nodes will look like regular files.
This is because they are created within a fakeroot session. They can't
be real device nodes because that would require root priviledges at
build-time.
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-19 14:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-18 23:47 [Buildroot] r21760 and device_table.txt problems Christopher Taylor
2008-04-19 14:58 ` Hamish Moffatt [this message]
2008-04-20 2:10 ` [Buildroot] Buildroot for AT91RM9200EK? Pink Boy
2008-04-20 2:42 ` Pink Boy
2008-04-20 3:12 ` Arun Reddy
2008-04-24 0:07 ` Pink Boy
2008-04-24 14:57 ` Christopher Taylor
2008-04-24 15:27 ` Ulf Samuelsson
2008-04-20 5:17 ` [Buildroot] r21760 and device_table.txt problems Christopher Taylor
2008-04-21 14:06 ` Hamish Moffatt
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