Re: RAM based filesystem in uclinux
Greg Ungerer <[email protected]>
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On 26/03/13 02:14, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 08:49:37AM +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote: >> Hi Lennart, >> >> On 22/03/13 23:41, Lennart Sorensen wrote: >>> The fact we can recreate the cpio archive and update the uImage from >>> the kernel and cpio archive is great. No recompile crap to deal with >>> the way romfs and such have tended to need. For us building the kernel >>> and the filesystem are totally seperate issues. >> >> I don't follow you here. How does using a ROMfs mean that building >> the kernel and filesystem are not separate? > > Well the way I saw it done when I looked at romfs, was that it was part > of the kernel image so you had to do the linking with the romfs files > in place to get the kernel image. > > Can you replace the romfs without using the kernel source tree, with > just a vmlinux (or equivelant) file around? Yes. On many occasions I have mixed various kernel binary and romfs images when testing regressions. It's so easy the way we do this on ColdFire, I just "cat" them together. Regards Greg _______________________________________________ uClinux-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/listinfo/uclinux-dev This message was resent by [email protected] To unsubscribe see: http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/options/uclinux-dev