Re: Building a stand-alone FS on a very limited flash (newbie question)

[Jeff Baitis <baitisj@evolution.com>]

I highly recommend looking at the UClibC project. Erik's code is a pleasure to
work with.  http://www.uclibc.org/

It is even possible to build libstdc++ with UClibC, if you are so inclined...
And, a number of commercial projects use UClibC , such as Linksys:
http://lkml.org/archive/2003/6/7/164/index.html

and Belkin:

http://lkml.org/archive/2003/6/8/31/index.html

<shameless YRO plug>

-Jeff



On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 07:37:19PM +0200, Baruch Chaikin wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm using MIPS kernel 2.4.18 with NFS file system mounted on a RedHat 
> machine. This works fine, but is unsuitable for system deployment. Do 
> you have hints for me where to start, in order to put the file system on 
> flash? The platform I'm using is very limited - only one MTD block of 
> 2.5 MB is available for the file system, out of a 4 MB flash:
>     0.5 MB is allocated for the firmware code
>     1.0 MB for the compressed kernel image
>     2.5 MB for the (compressed?) file system
> 
> For example, I've noticed LibC itself is ~5 MB !
> 
> Thanks for any tip,
> -    Baruch.
> 
> 
> 

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