From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:25:49 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [RFC] Slides "Using Buildroot for real projects" In-Reply-To: <4EA182BA.2050400@carallon.com> References: <20111017184718.71afc290@skate> <20111021154303.43f98ccd@skate> <4EA182BA.2050400@carallon.com> Message-ID: <20111021172549.2611d3a7@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Le Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:33:30 +0100, Will Wagner a ?crit : > Couple of minor points on the English (Still very impressive from a > non native speaker) Thanks! > p8: "Buildroot starts by the toolchain" should be "starts with the" Funny, because Will Moore told me to do the exact opposite (in a review he sent me privately yesterday): """ Slide 7, "Buildroot starts with the toolchain" not "Buildroot starts by the toolchain". """ Now I understand why I fail to further improve my english. It's because it's a fuzzy logic language ! :-) > p16 "Any other project specific file" should perhaps be "files" I have changed to "All other project specific files", maybe it's more correct? > p17: "kernel and bootloaders often" shouldn't it be singular > bootloader? Not necessarily. On AT91 platforms, you have two bootloaders: at91boostrap and u-boot, and I both patch them and build them within Buildroot. > p17: "drawback is that Buildroot does directly" unless I > misunderstand the use case, don't you mean doesn't? Fixed, thanks, that was a major typo. > p21: "I don't recommend this, ..." I'm not sure if you are not > recommending changing the skeleton or using a script to modify it Ok, I tried to clarify it: """I don't recommend this solution as it consists in duplicating the default skeleton, which would prevent from taking advantage of future improvements of the default skeleton.""" > p30: "finds automagically" should be "automagically finds" Fixed. > p37: "assignements" should be assignments Fixed. > p37: "allows to tell" should be "allows you to tell" Fixed. > One thing I'd love to get written up somewhere is best practice for > NFS mounting a filesystem image, but I realise this may not be > relevant to your talk. Ah, good point. I'll include a slide about this. Thanks! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com