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bernhardf
12-01-06 10:12
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That's an excellent idea except for the mount.
Please be so kind and update the patch to
select tarroot # or however the creation of a tarball is named
or just ln -s the build_$()/root to the dir gen_initramfs expects.
Also, it's easier for me if you could (also) send the patch with a copy'n paste of the adjusted description above to the mailing-list.
TIA! |
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fred
02-12-07 06:05
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Hi,
thanks for the reply to the patch! Unfortunatly I do not get the suggestion you made below. Just to make sure: Is it clear that you do not need to mount any filesystem with this proposed procedure?
Regards
Friedrich |
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bernhardf
07-07-07 10:40
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No it was not clear, but you're right: There is no mount involved.
The patch as-is is not terribly useful, though:
We most likely do not want the full root/ in the initramfs (since it consists of compilers, applications like libtool, perl, etc, eventually).
What we would need is a way to auto-generate a list of files that are supposed to be in the initramfs, like busybox stuff to load modules/spawn a shell and so on.
Perhaps the shell script should optionally take a list of files that should be put in the initramfs_list and only use the full content of staging_dir/root/ if such a file was not specified?
What do you think? Care to implement this?
cheers, |
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fred
07-09-07 00:38
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Hi Bernhard,
with this patch I wanted to do the build process of the root filesystem exactly the same way as it is done before, except that I do not need a mount. My understanding is that all files which are assigned to go to the root filesystem by buildroot should go. Introducing an additional file selection mechanism in this patch would from my point of view not be too smart, because this is just one way to produce the actual root, i.e. it would only work for this method. As it is now, everything in the staging_dir should go to the root filesystem. If you think that should be different, then maybe you could do something that is applicable to all methods to produce the root filesystem, no? So this patch works as follows:
1. Buildroot defines the system including the files that should go
to the root filesystem.
2. This patch is just an intermediate step to take that definition from
buildroot and convert it to file suitable for the cpio filesystem build.
3. The actual filesystem is then produced inside the kernel build process.
Regards
Friedrich |
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bernhardf
09-24-07 00:28
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I did apply this several weeks ago. Thanks! |
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