From: Michael A. N. <ma...@ho...> - 2008-01-28 04:18:17
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That's pretty much the conclusion that I had come to as well. With every kick comes a boost. I was looking for justification to order the Verdex anyway. Thanks for all your help. Michael -----Original Message----- From: gum...@li... [mailto:gum...@li...] On Behalf Of Steve Sakoman Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 9:44 PM To: General mailing list for gumstix users. Subject: Re: [Gumstix-users] udev - 4MB Connex under OE Michael, This may be a loosing battle. The new boot scheme will always use 1MB for the kernel, which may just be the straw that breaks the camel's back. The old scheme with the kernel in the rootfs allowed you to utilize any gains you might make by shrinking the kernel through build options. It seems like your best option for a 4MB system is probably to continue using the old uboot and buildroot. It would be possible to structure OE to use this same scheme, but I'm not sure it would be worth the effort. Steve On Jan 27, 2008 7:20 PM, Michael A. Nixon <ma...@ho...> wrote: > I am at a loss to determine what can be eliminated. I have commented the > lines for cron, boa, motd and www-content in the gumstix-basic-image. > Unfortunately, this only reduces the image size down to 3.1MB. So I am > still overwriting some of the file system. > > I am using the uClib based image. Suggestions? What is the difference that > allowed the buildroot builds to succeed? The old UBoot? > > Mike > > > -----Original Message----- > From: gum...@li... > [mailto:gum...@li...] On Behalf Of Steve > Sakoman > Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 6:39 PM > To: General mailing list for gumstix users. > Subject: Re: [Gumstix-users] udev - 4MB Connex under OE > > Michael, > > Sadly 3.7MB isn't good enough :-( > > That's cause you only really have 3 MB -- the linux uImage eats up 1MB > at the top of flash. > > So I imagine the missing file messages are because you over-wrote the > top of the root file system with the linux image. > > More dieting is required :-( > > Steve > > On Jan 27, 2008 4:06 PM, Michael A. Nixon <ma...@ho...> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I am making definite progress. The removal of MACHINE_FEATURES for sound > > and Bluetooth have indeed lowered the image to ~3.7MB. The image loaded > > fine and boots to a login prompt. > > > > > > > > However, I get an error > > > > > > > > Dec 31 16:13:00 udevd[158]: add_matching_files: unable to open > > '/dev/.udev/rules.d': No such file or directory > > > > > > > > Is this expected? > > > > > > > > Later, I get a whole host of errors of the form. > > > > > > > > /etc/init.d/rc: /etc/rdS.d/S37populate-volatile.sh: 1: cannot create > > /etc/volatile.cache: No space left on device > > > > > > > > I imaging that these are related to the 4MB flash but I am not sure. > > > > > > > > Mike > > > > > > > > > > > > Michael, > > > > You'll want to disable some MACHINE_FEATURES in > > com.gumstix.collection/conf/machine/gumstix-custom-connex.conf. > > > > Just comment out stuff you don't have in your board config. Disabling > > bluetooth and sound will make a huge difference in your image size. > > > > Then: > > > > bitbake -c rebuild task-base-gumstix > > bitbake -c rebuild gumstix-basic-image > > > > If basic-image is still too big you might have to fall back to > > minimal-image, but I think it should fit. > > > > Steve > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > > _______________________________________________ > > gumstix-users mailing list > > gum...@li... > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > gumstix-users mailing list > gum...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > gumstix-users mailing list > gum...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ gumstix-users mailing list gum...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gumstix-users |