[Buildroot] question about /tftpboot

Habib Bouaziz-Viallet habib.bouaziz at gmail.com
Sat Mar 22 18:01:18 UTC 2008


2008/3/22, Jean-Christian de Rivaz <jc at eclis.ch>:
> Habib Bouaziz-Viallet a écrit :
>  > 2008/3/22, Jean-Christian de Rivaz <jc at eclis.ch>:
>  >> Habib Bouaziz-Viallet a écrit :
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>>>  > I am interested to know if it work for your case.
>  >>  > Oh it does not work for me ... unfortunately. I resolved the pb by a
>  >>  > symbolic link.
>  >>
>  >>
>  >> Ok. Can you give me the error message or the configuration to reproduce
>  >>  the problem ? I have some motivation to solve this issue.
>  > As i noticed in my previous post i make a symlink from /tftpboot -->
>  > /home/ ..../buildroot/tftpboot and build process works fine now
>  >
>  > habib at mizar:~/PROJETS/PERSO/buildroot$ ls tftpboot/
>  > at91sam9260dfc-dataflashcardboot-2.3.bin        autoscript.loopee!  vmlinux
>  > at91sam9260dfc-u-boot-1.2.0-atmel-20080322.bin  bzImage
>  >
>  > So what configuration would you see ? Is it my .config in buildroot root tree ?
>
>
> Initially yes, but finally no.
>
>  I see now that you use an Atmel target. Atmel target have an other
>  symbol used to copy file into the tftpboot directory. I suspect that the
>  patch you tryed only solve the tftpboot issue with the kernel, but not
>  the issue with the Atmel target. I really don't know the rational for
>  having two symbols for the tftpboot directory, this is maybe the result
>  of some historic of the Atmel targets. Anyone know ?
>
Yes my work is derived from Atmel AT91 Dev Kit but with a VGA
controller from EPSON. I read somewhere that buildroot allows us to
create own board support.

All are going smoothly for the moment (make menuconfig, make
busybox-menuconfig, make linux26-menuconfig ...etc.)


>  I was hoping that you used a target other than Atmel to see if my patch
>  was helpful. I am now back to the staring point. Sorry for having lost
>  some of your time.
>
>  Still, I will be very happy if some maintainers can give to me an guess
>  if the BR2_TARGET_ATMEL_COPYTO should be replaced by to BR2_LINUX_COPYTO
>  symbol. I am motivated to provide a appropriate patch to make the
>  tftpboot directory working correctly if it is not exactly "/tftpboot".
>
>  Have a good day,
>  --
>
> Jean-Christian de Rivaz
>


-- 
M. Bouaziz-Viallet



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