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Re: [ts-7000] gnuts kernel project

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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] gnuts kernel project
From: "Gonzalo A. de la Vega" <>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 15:19:00 -0300
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Triffid Hunter
<> wrote:
> On Fri, 30 May 2008, Gonzalo A. de la Vega wrote:
>
>> It sounds good to unify our efforts. I'm now working on creating the
>> needed device nodes so we can actually run 2.6 kernel on a plain SBC
>> (no external driver nor NFS). I'll probably try udev too, but it
>> doesn't seem useful. In embedded is kind of an overkill, as Charlie
>> <> said since you're not plugging things all
>> the time... actually, you never do it.
>
> I really like only having /dev/{console,null} on "disk", then mounting a
> ramfs over /dev and letting mdev (busybox's udev equiv) populate it for
> me.

Oooohhh... so that's the trick, mounting a ramfs... so that's why udev
didn't work.

> That way, I only use a couple of inodes, and if I do plug in a usb
> wifi or usb disk or whatever, it appears without me having to do anything
> :)

Mine are 400km from here, in the middle of the desert, so to get there
I need to travel 5 hours by bus, pick a truck and drive to each
station each 1.5km (about a mile) away from the others. That's why I
never plug anything to them!!! :-D

> I often plug/unplug various usb devices into my ts7250, and don't want to
> have to look up major/minor numbers every time I do.

mdev is certainly your choice.

> I concur on the unification of effort thing - something I'd really like to
> have is a binary i686 gcc-4 uclibc-eabi and gnueabi toolchain. All my
> efforts to create such a beast have been fruitless so far.

I'll give it a try, but if you didn't succeed why would I? ;-)

> It seems like most of the patches we need have been trickling upstream
> which is excellent :)

Yeah, saves a lot of work.

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