From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hamish Moffatt Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:58:15 +1000 Subject: [Buildroot] r21760 and device_table.txt problems In-Reply-To: <2590773a0804181647y4200320du60683223dd30a1d4@mail.gmail.com> References: <2590773a0804181647y4200320du60683223dd30a1d4@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20080419145815.GB12780@cloud.net.au> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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 -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB