[Buildroot] [PATCH] [PATCH][RFC] new target: live filesystem

Samuel Martin s.martin49 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 3 09:21:06 UTC 2012


Hi Jeremy, all,

2012/12/3 Jeremy Rosen <jeremy.rosen at openwide.fr>:
> well, it's more a question of what you consider the live filesystem to be...
>
> I see it a as just another filesystem format (basically a NFS target) which is why my original patch had it in output/images/live
>
> if you see it as a deployment, it does not really make sense to add it to buildroot (buildroot doesn't flash the filesystem directly) I can understand that both point of view make sense
>
> however having this target makes things simpler in a very common use case (arguably the most common use case since it's the case where you use buildroot repeatedly to prepare the fs, not the case where you run it once to build the final FS)

That's a controversial topic...
But, at least, you cat start filling the gap in the doc ;-),
especially this section:
http://buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manual.html#_beyond_buildroot


-- 
Sam



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