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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