From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Likely Subject: Re: embedded rootfs utility Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:09:25 -0600 Message-ID: <20080730140925.GA21958@secretlab.ca> References: <488FCF7D.5010005@websterwood.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <488FCF7D.5010005@websterwood.com> Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Behan Webster Cc: linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:18:37PM -0400, Behan Webster wrote: > A quick announcement of the release of elbs, or the "Embedded Linux > Build System" (it seemed like a good name at the time I started writing > it...) So far it's just a few utilities that I wrote to make a few of > my own projects easier. > > However, most notably it contains a utility called "elbs-rootfs" which > makes it easy to create an embedded rootfs for any architecture > supported by the Debian projecy (or Ubuntu Linux). The idea is to get a > rootfs up and working quickly via nfs (or a flash drive) which allows > you to install any debian package and/or to do native development. This > is (not yet) meant as a tool to make your final rootfs fit on a small > flash partition. Hey Behan, thanks for posting this. For anybody looking at this tool, I can attest to it's usefulness. For my work it has simplified getting a full development environment setup for embedded targets. What mailing list should be used for any discussion/patches on this tool? Cheers, g.