[Yaffs-archive] Re: yaffs bootloader/image builder support

[Nick Bane]

> On Wed 03 Jul, Charles Manning wrote:
> > Hi yaffsers
> >
> > After a discussion with Nick, I have started writing a make-image tool
for
> > yaffs. Comments and advice appreciated.
> >
> > What this will do is as follows:
> >
> <all looks sensible>
> >
> > Wierd objects (eg fifos and devices) are ignored.
>
> Because it's difficult to copy them or because yaffs doesn't support them?
I
> can imagine some problems if it can't support these (it can't be a root
fs,
> you can't install diald, spring to mind).
>
I would like to echo the above and point out that not having /dev (and
therefore insisting on devfs being mounted at boot time) might be a serious
restriction.

Nick



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