From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Denk Subject: Re: building Rootfs Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:00:34 +0200 Message-ID: <20080708140034.B2B7424681@gemini.denx.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:24:48 CDT." Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Haller, John H (John)" Cc: Linus Walleij , linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org In message 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 -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@denx.de The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner. - Mark Twain