[Buildroot] [PATCH 11/14] imx-uuc: add new package

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Sun Mar 20 18:42:50 UTC 2016


>>>>> "Gary" == Gary Bisson <gary.bisson at boundarydevices.com> writes:

Hi,

 >> I see it also creates a 1MB fat filesystem image using mkfs.vfat. It is
 >> not clear to me what that is for, but if it is needed then the package
 >> should select BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_DOSFSTOOLS.

 > It says in their commit log the reason is to avoid Windows popup
 > format dialog when the board is enumerated.
 > https://github.com/Freescale/meta-fsl-arm/commit/24be3bf0

Ok. If that is important enough then host-dosfstools should be added to
the dependencies.

 >> I'm not really sure installing linuxrc makes any sense. Perhaps we
 >> should just install an init script to run it at startup?

 > I hesitated and decided to leave as linuxrc since the file includes
 > sys/proc/devtempfs mounting and should really be used as init process.

Yes, but what I meant was that it would be nicer to use the normal
Buildroot init (which takes care of sys/proc/devtmpfs/..) and then just
add an init script to run uuc.

 > I'll work on the package again next week, the rest of the series is
 > not dependent on it anyway.

Great, thanks.

-- 
Venlig hilsen,
Peter Korsgaard 


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