From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Mon, 09 Jun 2003 20:02:02 +0100 (BST) Received: from il-la.la.idealab.com ([IPv6:::ffff:63.251.211.5]:58058 "HELO idealab.com") by linux-mips.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 9 Jun 2003 20:02:00 +0100 Received: (qmail 18285 invoked by uid 6180); 9 Jun 2003 19:01:58 -0000 Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 12:01:58 -0700 From: Jeff Baitis To: Baruch Chaikin Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Rabeeh Khoury , Baruch Chaikin Subject: Re: Building a stand-alone FS on a very limited flash (newbie question) Message-ID: <20030609120158.Q29389@luca.pas.lab> Reply-To: baitisj@evolution.com References: <20030609154408.GA1781@nevyn.them.org> <3EE4C5CF.3050607@galileo.co.il> <20030609114951.O29389@luca.pas.lab> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20030609114951.O29389@luca.pas.lab>; from baitisj@evolution.com on Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 11:49:51AM -0700 Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 2575 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: baitisj@evolution.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips I made a mistake. I'm sorry, these projects use *busybox*. Don't know if they use UClibC or not. Some wires in my brain got crossed. Sorry about that. But, I do recommend UClibC. -Jeff On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 11:49:51AM -0700, Jeff Baitis wrote: > 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 > > > > -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. > > > > > > > > -- > Jeffrey Baitis - Associate Software Engineer > > Evolution Robotics, Inc. > 130 West Union Street > Pasadena CA 91103 > > tel: 626.535.2776 | fax: 626.535.2777 | baitisj@evolution.com > > -- Jeffrey Baitis - Associate Software Engineer Evolution Robotics, Inc. 130 West Union Street Pasadena CA 91103 tel: 626.535.2776 | fax: 626.535.2777 | baitisj@evolution.com