On Thursday 07 August 2003 10:28, ramesh thatha wrote:
i think we don't need any special tools to have our own embedded linux... I did from scratch... without
Tools are required for creating cross platform distros. Try doing this from scratch without tools. It is a pain in the ass and a waste of time.
why i am stressing to come scratch is we will total control on the system (i.e we know everything about our system).
CML2 lets you do precisely this.
and one more thing to sameer....
when u r shifting from hard disk to flash disk.... you need to consider few things like.....
flash disk has limited number of write cycles... ,
jffs2 file systems uses wear levelling and bad sector marking to ensure maximum usability. with current flash devices life is a couple of years - quite sufficient for most uses (unless u plan to go to Mars and comeback ;-).
rgds jtdsouza@softhome.net