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

[Wookey]

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).

Obviously, like symlinks, you copy the entry rather than content for these.

Wookey
-- 
Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK  Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679
work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/     play: http://www.chaos.org.uk/~wookey/


---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This mailing list is hosted by Toby Churchill open software (www.toby-churchill.org).
If mailing list membership is no longer wanted you can remove yourself from the list by 
sending an email to yaffs-request@toby-churchill.org with the text "unsubscribe" 
(without the quotes) as the subject.