Hi All, A good idea IMHO. Small boot up means more stuff in removeable memory means MUCH easier to try new versions. If we have a small simple bootup all the "heavy" stuff could be on one plug-in memory or better two. One for known good stuff and one for stuff being tested.
Just my 2 cents. warm regards to all, John On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> I see. Sounds like a lot of trouble just to remove jffs2. > > Yes. Is there any particular reason you're trying to do so? I see > > what you're trying to do, but no why. JFFS2 is rather well suited for > > the hardware OpenWRT is targeted at, integrated HD or not. Does the > > 700gE not have any flash at all? What do you hope to gain by > > propagating yet another edge case? > > The WL-700gE only has 2MB of flash, so if you're careful to strip down > the firmware image, you get a tiny jffs2 partition that's half-working > (too few erase blocks available for jffs2 to work reliably), and in any > case the jffs2 is only used to override the squashfs files to make them > mount /dev/hde1 and pivot to it early in the boot process (e.g. by > replacing /sbin/init with a script that does > mount+pivot+exec/sbin/init). > > And with more recent images, I even find it difficult to get a small > enough image that there is space at all for a jffs2 partition. > So instead, I change the source code so there's no need to use a jffs2 > to override the squashfs files (basically I add a few lines to > /sbin/mount_root to try and mount /dev/hde1 and pivot to it). > > Not using a jffs2 partition gives me very valuable space to add some > handy tools (handy when the /dev/hde drive somehow fails to mount), and > removing the jffs2 code would give me yet a bit more space for more > such tools. But it's not like it's a big deal. > > > Stefan > > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > http://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel > _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org http://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel