Re: [uClinux-dev] Re: 3 patch files for genromfs

From: gerg (gerg@lineo.com)
Date: Sun Aug 19 2001 - 09:13:40 EDT


Hi Kendrick,

"Kendrick G. Hamilton" wrote:
>         A nice addition to genromfs would be to allow it to set the super user
> bit on files in the file system. Specifically, tinylogin. Currently, you
> need to be the super user to install tinylogin on a systems.

Yes, I can see circumstances where that is a problem.
I will gladly roll anyone's patches into our local uClinux genromfs
package :-)

Regards
Greg




> gerg wrote:
> > Hi LEOX Team,
> >
> > (Is there more than one of you :-)
> >
> > I have rolled all the peices you list together and produced a
> > genromfs-0.3.2 You can get it at:
> >
> >  http://www.uclinux.org/pub/uClinux/utilities/genromfs-0.3.2.tar.gz
> >
> > So it is at least all in one package now. I will attempt to contact
> > the maintainers to see about getting this back into the official
> > package - if it is still maintained. That is about as good as
> > we can do for now...
> >
> > The elf2flt situation is much simpler. I can say that since I
> > originally created it. Pass any changes to davidm or I and we
> > can roll them into our standard release package.
> >
> > There is a confusingly large number of versions on uclinux.org
> > though I notice. So lets settle on /pub/uClinux/utilities as
> > holding the latest master source package (although other
> > assorted versions may appear where appropriate on uclinux.org).
> >
> > Regards
> > Greg
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > The LEOX team wrote:
> >
> >>Hi Greg & David,
> >>
> >>I am working on uClinux (version 2.0.38) for LEON Sparc MMUless architecture.
> >>The LEON core is an open source VHDL implementation of a full SPARC V8
> >>standard core.
> >>
> >>In this context, the LEOX project provides a Cross Development Kit (CDK) that
> >>automagically compiles and installs the dedicated development environment from
> >>all required source packages including the genromfs package.
> >>
> >>I took the genromfs package from David's m68k-elf-tools
> >>(http://www.uclinux.org/pub/uClinux/m68k-elf-tools/tools-20010716/genromfs-0.3.1.tar.bz2).
> >>
> >>I added 3 patch files:
> >>
> >>  - (genromfs-0.3.1-bugFixed-professor.diff) is only a redesign of the
> >>genromfs-0.3.uclinuxdiff patch file provided by David. I included the email se
> >>nt by <profesor@sidehack.sat.gweep.net>.
> >>  - (genromfs-0.3.1-bugFixed-lpm.diff) ensure the compilation on both Solaris
> >>and Linux systems.
> >>  - (genromfs-0.3.1-Cindent.diff) is a C indentation of genromfs.c
> >>
> >>I attached this 3 patches to this email.
> >>
> >>Greg Ungerer wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hi Christian,
> >>>
> >>>caschrei@rockwellcollins.com wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>Regarding location for latest genromfs:
> >>>>
> >>>>[...]
> >>>>
> >>>That is right, it should be totally architecture neutral.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Where is the official source for genromfs?  I'm seeing genromfs-3.1 on
> >>>>www.leox.org, and it still has to be patched to avoid the
> >>>>multiply-linked-directory bug.  The sources say Jakub Jelinek
> >>>>(jj@ultra.linux.cz) is the most recent maintainer as of 1998; does anyone
> >>>>know if he is still handling it?
> >>>>
> >>>I don't know. There is a number of different patched versions
> >>>within the uClinux space right now. This is a bad thing :-(
> >>>
> >>I completely agree but i don't where is the official place of both tools
> >>genromfs and elf2flt.
> >>
> >>
> >>>It would be nice if someone put all the good fixes together and
> >>>got them rolled into the official maintained release.
> >>>
> >>>Regards
> >>>Greg
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Best Regards
> >>The LEOX team
> >>
> >>http://www.leox.org : Free Hardware and Software Resources for System-on-Chip
> >>
> >>  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>                                                Name: genromfs-0.3.1-bugFixed-professor.diff.gz
> >>   genromfs-0.3.1-bugFixed-professor.diff.gz    Type: unspecified type (application/octet-stream)
> >>                                            Encoding: base64
> >>
> >>                                          Name: genromfs-0.3.1-bugFixed-lpm.diff.gz
> >>   genromfs-0.3.1-bugFixed-lpm.diff.gz    Type: unspecified type (application/octet-stream)
> >>                                      Encoding: base64
> >>
> >>                                     Name: genromfs-0.3.1-Cindent.diff.gz
> >>   genromfs-0.3.1-Cindent.diff.gz    Type: unspecified type (application/octet-stream)
> >>                                 Encoding: base64
> >>
> >
> 
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