On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:35 PM, charliem_1216 <> wrote:
> 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
Agree about udev on embedded systems. So you created the nodes
manually and it worked?
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