Re: [Gumstix-users] robostix driver for gumstix

[Dave H. <dhy...@gm...>]

Hi Wei,

> do you mean I should copy all the files in build_arm_nofpu/root/ to
> overwrite whole system on gumstix?

Well, I was thinking that you'd probably want to reflash the entire
image, because alot more stuff has changed than just the kernel and
the modules (like all of the udev stuff).

> http://www.gumstix.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=3DTips+and+Tricks
> it is said that "If you upgrade to a new kernel, you just need to replace
> the /boot/uImage file on the gumstix, and any modules in /lib/modules/...=
"
> furthor more, the new built root_fs for  2.6.15  ocupies  more than 7M
> space. so for basix-gumstix which has only 4M flash, extra storage is
> needed?

Hmmm. What did you enable? Mine is much smaller:
ls -l rootfs*
-rw-r--r--    1 dhylands dhylands 3353612 Feb 17 08:03 rootfs.arm_nofpu.jff=
s2

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