From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: "Haller, John H (John)" <jhaller@alcatel-lucent.com>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.ml.walleij@gmail.com>,
linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: building Rootfs
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:00:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080708140034.B2B7424681@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:24:48 CDT." <B78930B8E34A824993912C39C24569E60141D874@ILEXC3U01.ndc.lucent.com>
In message <B78930B8E34A824993912C39C24569E60141D874@ILEXC3U01.ndc.lucent.com> you wrote:
>
> There are three issues in building an embedded cross-filesystem:
> 1. Identification of the files to put into the filesystem.
> 2. Stripping or extracting debug symbols from the filesystem.
> 3. Getting files into the filesystem when the development
> system does not allow root access.
3. is a non-issue for most common file systems.
> The third item is easy for an initramfs, but not well handled
> by existing tools for an initrd (although I haven't looked
> recently). One possibility is to modify a mkfs program, such
genext2fs has been around for a long, long time.
And there are similar tools for other file system types like cramfs
or jffs2 ...
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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2008-07-07 20:34 ` building Rootfs Linus Walleij
2008-07-07 21:21 ` Robert Schwebel
2008-07-09 0:14 ` Linus Walleij
2008-07-09 7:06 ` Robert Schwebel
2008-07-07 23:24 ` Haller, John H (John)
2008-07-08 6:54 ` Robert Schwebel
2008-07-08 14:00 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2008-07-08 23:53 ` Linus Walleij
2008-07-09 0:52 ` David VomLehn
2008-07-09 7:10 ` Robert Schwebel
2008-07-09 6:21 ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-07-09 6:43 ` Robert Schwebel
2008-07-09 7:22 ` Peter Korsgaard
2008-07-09 8:22 ` Marek Skuczynski
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