From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com (yw-out-2324.google.com [74.125.46.30]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4778DE03E for ; Tue, 19 May 2009 04:18:58 +1000 (EST) Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 2so1754176ywt.39 for ; Mon, 18 May 2009 11:18:57 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4A11A3B4.7060801@yahoo.com> References: <4A0FCEAA.5000606@yahoo.com> <20090518171028.GA18620@b07421-ec1.am.freescale.net> <4A11A3B4.7060801@yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 20:18:56 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Accessing NTFS Shares from Freescale MPC8313 From: Leon Woestenberg To: Chris Plasun Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Hello Chris, On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Chris Plasun 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