[oe] [PATCH 1/3 v2] xilinx-virtex4: new file

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2010/7/14 Philip Balister <philip at balister.org>

> On 07/14/2010 03:15 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
>
> ....
>
>  2010/7/14 Adrian Alonso<aalonso00 at gmail.com>
>>
>>> +# Device nodes add xsa for (system ace)
>>> +IMAGE_DEVICE_TABLES = "files/device_table-minimal.txt \
>>> +                       files/device_table_add-xsa.txt"
>>>
>>>
>> I think these are normally not put in machine files.
>> (at least I normally put them in my image recipe's not in the machine
>> file).
>>
>
> Just out of curiousity, what are these files for?
>
> Philip
>
> They are tables to make a static /dev
Very useful if you are running a resource contrained (aka embedded :-) )
setup in a static configuration, as you do not have to run udev or friends
(ofc you cannot really have hot pluggable devices).

Frans