From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 23:29:08 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] git binary diffs are not supported In-Reply-To: <53C83C74.5040708@posteo.de> References: <53C665B1.6050609@posteo.de> <20140716152504.4bd10dbb@free-electrons.com> <53C83C74.5040708@posteo.de> Message-ID: <20140717232908.6afb203f@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear J?rg Krause, On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 23:13:24 +0200, J?rg Krause wrote: > I have a board with NAND flash which locates the root filesystem as > UBIFS. I tried to load the device driver of the wifi device as a module > at boot time. The driver tries to read the firmware binary from rootfs, > but unfortunately the builtin UBIFS driver is loaded after this. Hu? If your wifi driver is built as a module, then surely it gets loaded *after* the root filesystem has been mounted: kernel modules are files, so you cannot load them before the root filesystem is mounted. Can you show your kernel .config file, as well as the complete boot log of your platform? Thanks, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com