From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Likely Subject: Re: ELBS mindshare Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:09:53 -0700 Message-ID: <20080917220953.GB7453@secretlab.ca> References: <488FCF7D.5010005@websterwood.com> <20080810151435.GG15696@tamay-dogan.net> <48B188CE.1030006@websterwood.com> <20080917181323.GD7913@secretlab.ca> <20080917182333.GO9852@pengutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080917182333.GO9852@pengutronix.de> Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Robert Schwebel Cc: Behan Webster , Michelle Konzack , linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 08:23:33PM +0200, Robert Schwebel 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-) Oops, I forgot to remove the linux-embedded from the to: list. I had intended to this to be a private email to Behan; Oh well, now even more people have probably heard about it. :-) ELBS is a set of tools for bootstrapping an embedded root filesystem using existing Debian or Ubuntu packages. g.