From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Schwebel Subject: Re: ELBS mindshare Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:27:19 +0200 Message-ID: <20080917202719.GR9852@pengutronix.de> References: <488FCF7D.5010005@websterwood.com> <20080810151435.GG15696@tamay-dogan.net> <48B188CE.1030006@websterwood.com> <20080917181323.GD7913@secretlab.ca> <20080917182333.GO9852@pengutronix.de> <5763a8949cead468dd505137165e8e65.squirrel@www.geekisp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5763a8949cead468dd505137165e8e65.squirrel@www.geekisp.com> Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Bill Traynor Cc: linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 03:48:57PM -0400, Bill Traynor wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:13:23AM -0700, Grant Likely wrote: > >> BTW, I was talking with a guy from TI last night (Mike Turquette; works > >> on the OMAP) and I asked him my standard question about what he thinks > >> about the state of building root filesystems for embedded systems. > >> > >> When he listed the toolkits he knows about and is interested in, ELBS > >> was either the 2nd or 3rd tool that he mentioned. > >> > >> Word is getting around dude. > > > > What is ELBS? If it is somehow better than ptxdist, I'll have to apply a > > few patches there 8-) > > Embedded Linux Build System > http://debian.websterwood.com/elbs/ > > Article on LinuxDevices: > http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5894411715.html Ok, you do native building, that's not what we do for ptxdist's standard root filesystems. But note that ptxdist itself is only a system to manage configurable rules which are being executed in a dependency-defined order; so in the end, it can built whatever it likes. rsc -- Dipl.-Ing. Robert Schwebel | http://www.pengutronix.de Pengutronix - Linux Solutions for Science and Industry Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 Hannoversche Str. 2, 31134 Hildesheim, Germany Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-9