Re: Angstrom on Collie with kernel 2.6

Dnia środa, 18 kwietnia 2007, Arieh Skliarouk napisał:

> I know, this is mailing list for openzaurus distro, but since the only
> distro that was built for collie with kernel 2.6 is Angstrom, this is
> what I am going to check.

OpenZaurus-devel ML is also used for Zaurus development nevermind which 
distro is used (as long as it is OZ or OE derived).

> My first question is, why modules (file modules-2.6.20.6-collie.tgz)
> were supplied separately, and not as part of rootfs image?
> The image has 6+ MB of free space, more than enough to host all the
> modules. 

modules-KERNEL_VER-MACHINE.tgz contain ALL modules for machine. By default 
images generated by OpenEmbedded contain only needed modules. We can 
change it for collie/2.6 anyway as this is rather test device.

> If the goal was to avoid rootfs bloat with unnecessary modules, then
> the rootfs should at least include following critical modules:
>
> 2.6.20.6/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-core.ko      // To mount the CF cards
> 2.6.20.6/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap.ko  // For the WiFi
>
> 2.6.20.6/kernel/drivers/spi/locomo_spi.ko // For the SD
> 2.6.20.6/kernel/drivers/mmc/mmc_block.ko
>
> Could be there are other modules that must be on rootfs.

ok

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