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

[Adrian Alonso]

I use this to add compact flash (system ace) device nodes where the rootfs
is
stored, some machine conf files does add this and in my case
"device_table_add-xsa.txt"
holds the static dev nodes that are only useful for xilinx platforms.

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks <
fransmeulenbroeks at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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