Re: Accessing NTFS Shares from Freescale MPC8313

[Leon Woestenberg <leon.woestenberg@gmail.com>]

Hello Chris,

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Chris Plasun <chrispl78@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Scott Wood wrote:
>> On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 01:45:30AM -0700, Chris Plasun wrote:
>>> (I haven't found any answers in the archives)
>>> How would I access a NTFS shared directory from a Freescale MPC8313?
>>> Will Samba run on a Freescale MPC8313?
>>
>> It should (and if it doesn't, file a bug with them).
>> Userspace is pretty much the same at the source-code and user-interface
>> level -- the answer to "how do I do X on this PPC board" is generally the
>> same as the answer to "how do I do X on Linux", other than that you may
>> need to compile some packages manually if they don't come with whatever
>> distribution you're using.
>
> Thanks Scott.
>
> I did some more reading on the board and it appears that it's not as limited
> as I thought. The "custom" Linux we're running is very limited (so it
> appears) and I interpreted the board to be so as well.
>

To build your own fully-open Linux for this board, I can recommend
both these projects:

LTIB (http://www.bitshrine.org/)
OpenEmbedded (http://www.openembedded.org/)

We use the latter in an industrial setting with much success,

Regards,
-- 
Leon