[Buildroot] Anyone working on adding systemd and NetworkManager?

[Buildroot] Anyone working on adding systemd and NetworkManager?

[Daniel Mack]

The subject says it all: did anyone look into what it takes to add
systemd to buildroot as an alternative to the SysV init scripts? It
seems that that would make a lot of sense for embedded devices.

Also, NetworkManager is being used more and more as the standard API
to configure network configuration, Wifi access points and the like -
has anyone used that package with buildroot yet?


Daniel

[Buildroot] Anyone working on adding systemd and NetworkManager?

[Thomas Petazzoni]

On Tue, 31 May 2011 11:16:04 +0200
Daniel Mack <zonque@gmail.com> wrote:

> The subject says it all: did anyone look into what it takes to add
> systemd to buildroot as an alternative to the SysV init scripts? It
> seems that that would make a lot of sense for embedded devices.
> 
> Also, NetworkManager is being used more and more as the standard API
> to configure network configuration, Wifi access points and the like -
> has anyone used that package with buildroot yet?

I haven't heard of anyone packaging those two components, and they
would definitely be useful.

However, what about connman instead of NetworkManager ? It seems like
connman is more embedded/mobile oriented than NetworkManager, no?

Regards,

Thomas
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[Buildroot] Anyone working on adding systemd and NetworkManager?

[Daniel Mack]

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 31 May 2011 11:16:04 +0200
> Daniel Mack <zonque@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The subject says it all: did anyone look into what it takes to add
>> systemd to buildroot as an alternative to the SysV init scripts? It
>> seems that that would make a lot of sense for embedded devices.
>>
>> Also, NetworkManager is being used more and more as the standard API
>> to configure network configuration, Wifi access points and the like -
>> has anyone used that package with buildroot yet?
>
> I haven't heard of anyone packaging those two components, and they
> would definitely be useful.

The problem with newer version of udev is that they depend on epoll.
As far as I got it, there was work done on this in uclibc just
recently. So I will wait for the next release and try again.

> However, what about connman instead of NetworkManager ? It seems like
> connman is more embedded/mobile oriented than NetworkManager, no?

connman indeed looks more appropriate. I'll test that and come up with patch.

Thanks,
Daniel