Triffid Hunter wrote:
> gentoo's crossdev tool and tinygentoo and lvm2 root (initramfs) howtos
> were really helpful too although by now I've made enough initramfs' to set
> up the system root without problems.. you may notice that my current
> 2.6.21 is a gentoo kernel ;)
I'm using gentoo's crossdev as well, but more closer to the 2.6.20
series vanilla kernels from kernel.org. Did you have to patch the gentoo
2.6.21 kernel with anything except the few mentioned before?
We should really post a few patches to a vanilla kernel on the ts7000
yahoo groups site, so that people can easily find what they need. Even
posting a small document on that site containing instructions to apply
the patches would certainly be helpful.
Initramfs is an awesome thing, but I haven't really used it extensively
with the TS boards. I've used initramfs when I started playing around
with Qemu, only for demo purposes, but I think that it's a very valuable
tool for setting up modules before handing everything over to userspace.
These days I'm trying to use Qemu more for building packages for the TS
boards, and it works like a charm with a gentoo embedded stage3
filesystem for the arm - the only downside is that the processor is
slightly different (926 instead of 920) - I'll hopefully put together
some info on how others can do this too
<tangential>
- actually, it would be ___AMAZING___ if TS could port some of their
system components so that we could do simulations with Qemu (hint
hint!!), and I'm sure that it would likely help sales when people find
out they could quickly simulate things on their workstation without
having to upload and run / power down every time.
</tangential>
Could you perhaps write out a few steps for your initramfs image to
share with everyone else? Do you know if it's possible to build it
separately as an 'initrd' style image, or do you need to build it in
directly to the kernel?
Could you post your busybox configs / uClibc configs?
Many Thanks,
Chris
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