Hi. I'm new to the group. I started using openWrt last week and I've come across some vexing issues. If these are resolved somewhere else, please point me elsewhere.
First of all, I've been able to build and install an image on my device (it happens to be a Nexaira BC2 board.) and that works fine. Now, I want to create two packages. One is a trivial "hello world" application and the other is a trivial kernel module that uses printk to print a message to the "ring buffer" that is read by the dmesg tool. I figure that after I get these two packages working then my development work will be unencumbered by openWrt technicalities. At that point all I need to do is... develop code. I read the documentation and I wrote two packages. Both are visible via "make menuconfig". Both compile. But, neither the application or the KLM get picked up and packed into the root file image. I've looked in the staging area and I see that my files are waiting there to be scooped up. But, they don't appear on my target. I'm loading my device with tftp. I've deleted the image to be loaded, and watched the image upload fail, then I've restored the image and watched the upload succeed. So, I've traced some of the information flow. I.e., I have some level of confidence that what I see on my target is somehow the image of something I'm doing in my sandbox. Also... I've experienced VERY long build times when I make the generic target. Is there a target I can use that just creates the root file system image? Something like... "make root_fs" that will pick up the files in the staging area. Then, if my files aren't being copied there for any reason, then I can put them there manually and make progress while I psychoanalyze the overall build process at some other time? -- Remember when teachers, public employees, Planned Parenthood, NPR and PBS crashed the stock market, wiped out half of our 401Ks, took trillions in TARP money, spilled oil in the Gulf of Mexico, gave themselves billions in bonuses, and paid no taxes? Yeah, me neither. John Zavgren 603-371-0513 (home) 603-801-2094 (cell) johnzavgren (skype) 603-821-0904 (skype) j...@zavgren.com _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
