[oe] How do I build OE for PPC-405 inside Virtex 4?

Philip Balister philip at balister.org
Mon Oct 5 12:22:09 UTC 2009


Did you figure out how to fix the respawning too fast problem? I am 
curious how to fix that.

Philip

On 10/05/2009 03:50 AM, Ali Akbar Zarezadeh wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> Only for notation, I have solved my issue referring to the limitation on
> ramdisk size.
>
> Inside the Linux Kernel Configuration, the "Default RAM disk size"
> should be modified:
>
> --------------
> Linux kernel Configuration utility:
>
> |-- Device Drivers
> |    |-- Block devices
> |         |-- RAM block device support
> |              |-- (xxx) Default RAM disk size (kbytes)
> --------------
>
> with changing (xxx) value it would be possible to use ramdisk space up
> to 60M (xxx ->  61440) or ... and seems it was the boundary which
> controls the settings inside the bitbake.conf.
>
> Also, scp is used instead of ftp and is working perfect, but on each
> system reboot I must delete the relevant RSA host key
> in ../.ssh/known_hosts file inside my desktop PC.
>
> ciao
> Ali
>
> PS: Embedded Linux Primer by Christopher Hallinan was an invaluable book
> to get me help understanding a lot of things around system boot
> procedure and I would strongly recommend it to anyone who is beginner
> (newbie) like me in this area.
>
>> 1) If I would increase the size of ramdisk more than approximately 25%
>> of total installed physical memory size, I will hit with another problem
>> in the boots up time which complains for exceeding the threshold size.
>> It seems somewhere should be a limitation or setting for it. Is there
>> any idea where?
>>
>> 2) More often in our development and debug process, ftp would be desired
>> to copy the new application binary through network. As I checked there
>> is no ftp tool already installed in the ramdisk (only there is tftp from
>> busybox-1.13.2-r18). Would you let me know how I should put ftp in the
>> generated image file?
>
>
>
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