[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] cramfs: change to new site location

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Tue Feb 13 20:26:50 UTC 2018


Hello,

On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 20:24:21 +0000, Chris Brandt wrote:

> All I can tell you is that there is not a command line option for it.
> So, I assume it's not supported.
> 
> $ output/build/host-cramfs-5aea81001ac6/mkcramfs 
> usage: output/build/host-cramfs-5aea81001ac6/mkcramfs [-h] [-e edition] [-i file] [-n name] [-D file] dirname outfile
>  -h         print this help
>  -E         make all warnings errors (non-zero exit status)
>  -e edition set edition number (part of fsid)
>  -i file    insert a file image into the filesystem (requires >= 2.4.0)
>  -n name    set name of cramfs filesystem
>  -p         pad by 512 bytes for boot code
>  -s         sort directory entries (old option, ignored)
>  -v         be more verbose
>  -x         use extended block pointers (requires >= 4.15)
>  -X         allow XIP of ELF files (imply -x)
>  -z         make explicit holes (requires >= 2.3.39)
>  -D         Use the named FILE as a device table file
>  -q         squash permissions (make everything owned by root)
>  dirname    root of the filesystem to be compressed
>  outfile    output file
> 
> I don't have any big endian systems, so I can't test it either.

We have a number of Qemu defconfigs, including for big-endian systems
such as PowerPC. It should be doable to perform a test :)

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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