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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: udev on TS-Linux
From: "charliem_1216" <>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 02:35:20 -0000
Hi Gonzalo --

--- In  "Gonzalo A. de la Vega" 
<> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Oliver Martin
> <> wrote:
> > Am Tue, 27 May 2008 22:46:36 -0000 schrieb Gonzalo A. de la 
Vega:
> >
> >> Allright guys... I give up. How do you get udev to show all the
> >> devices at startup with TS-Linux? I can boot the 2.6 kernel but 
then
> >> the /dev/ directory is empty. Isn't udev supposed to manage 
that?
> >> I can make nodes like /dev/null but the /dev/ttyAM* won't work.
> >>
> > If your board comes with 2.4, then it doesn't use udev but 
devfs. You
> > either have to manually install udev in TS-Linux or build your 
own
> > "distro" (i.e., root fs). Have a look at ptxdist, it will give 
you
> > something workable with a bit of experimentation.
> 
> It's a TS7260 so it comes with 2.4, but I built a 2.6, booted, but 
I
> get no devices, despite having installed udev. I'll try ptxdist, 
at
> least to check how they handle this.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Gonzalo
>

I always thought that udev was a little overkill for embedded 
systems, where you generally know ahead of time what devices you 
will need, and can make the device nodes the old fashioned way.  
That's what I did for my 2.6 development, but IIRC there were some 
devices required that were not immediately obvious.

Regards, ...... Charlie



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