From: The LEOX team (lpm@leox.org)
Date: Thu Aug 16 2001 - 17:53:32 EDT
Hi Christian, caschrei@rockwellcollins.com wrote: > [...] > > Has anyone else reported LEOX configuration successes problems on Sun > hosts? Any thoughts on what to do? If I get some time extra time on my > hands, I might try resetting my PATH to point to known POSIX compatible > versions of grep, cp, rm, and so forth, but given my current knowledge I am > reluctant to invest more time into the configure problem. I use both Solaris 2.6 and Linux. The LEOX CDK compiles fine on both systems. uClinux kernel for Sparc runs also well under tsim on both systems. > Thank you for your help, > > Christian Schreiner > caschrei@rockwellcollins.nospam.com (minus the .nospam) > > The LEOX team <lpm@leox.org>@free.fr on 08/16/2001 03:20:17 PM > > Sent by: paugaml@free.fr > > To: caschrei@rockwellcollins.com > cc: leon_sparc@yahoogroups.com > > Subject: Re: [leon_sparc] leon+linux root filesystem // answer to CAS > question > > caschrei@rockwellcollins.com wrote: > > > > I am porting an embedded Linux variant to run on my LEON board. Does > > anyone have any experience using the LEON software tools to integrate a > > Linux root filesystem image into the same binary file with the Linux > > kernel? > > > > The kernel would need some constant set to the start address of the > > filesystem image. > > > > The details of my system are: > > > > Leon 2.0 w/ LECCS > > uClinux 2.0.38.1pre7 > > tsim 1.0.6 (I have not tried running on hardware yet) > > > > If there is documentation available on creating the root filesystem, > please > > direct me to it. I have not seen this issue directly covered in the > > documentation I have downloaded so far. I currently intend to generate > the > > filesystem as a romfs (with the mkromfs, though I am willing to consider > > other filesystem types if there is a reason to do so. > > The way to create a ROM file system is as follow: > > 1) Create a complete file system: > > mkdir -p romdisk/bin > mkdir -p romdisk/dev > > 2) Create device nodes (no need to be root): > > touch romdisk/dev/@ttyS0,c,4,64 > > 3) Generate your file system: > > /opt/leox/gnu/bin/genromfs -v -V "ROM Disk" -f romdisk.img -d romdisk > > Make sure to use the genromfs from the leox-CDK, it is really complete > and up to date. > > > Incidentally, my hardware will not have any network ports or other > > periphials available (other than the serial ports provided in the LEON > > core). > > > > Thank you in advance, > > > > -- Christian Schreiner > > caschrei@rockwellcollins.com > > > > > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > -- > Best Regards > The LEOX team > > http://www.leox.org : Free Hardware and Software Resources for > System-on-Chip -- Best Regards The LEOX team http://www.leox.org : Free Hardware and Software Resources for System-on-Chip This message resent by the uclinux-dev@uclinux.org list server http://www.uClinux.org/
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