Re: [Ltib] YAFFS2 tool/deployment method

[Peter Barada]

On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 13:43 +0100, Stuart Hughes wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> Looking at this a bit further I see that this seems to be a sub-set of 
> an existing package (dist/lfs-5.1/yaffs-utils/yaffs-utils.spec)
>
> Rather than adding a new package would it be better to update this 
> package and add your patches, or is there some other factor?

Hmm, that probably the right way to do this.  I'll go back and look.

> Regards, Stuart
>
> Stuart Hughes wrote:
> > Hi Peter,
> > 
> > Thanks for the patches.  It looks good to me and I'm in the process of 
> > integrating this.
> > 
> > I have some questions:
> > 
> > * Can you give a me a URL for mkyaffs2image-20090406.tar.bz2 and say how 
> > this tarball is created (it looks like a sub-set of a snapshot?)
It is a subset of a snapshot from the YAFFS CVS tree.  Instructions to grabbing the tree can be found at http://www.yaffs.net/node/346  Unfortunately the YAFFS project doesn't produce release tarballs.

> > * So that I get it right when I upload to the GPP, can you confirm that 
> > your are the author of patches to mkyaffs2image and that they are 
> > licensed under GPL (mkyaffs2image-20090406-01.patch, 
> > mkyaffs2image-20090406-02.patch, mkyaffs2image-20090406-03.patch).

Yes, I am and they are releasable under GPL.
> > * Can you confirm that you are happy with the directory I intend to 
> > place the mkyaffs2image.spec in.  I have it in: 
> > dist/lfs-5.1/mkyaffs2image/mkyaffs2image.spec
Yes, but moot given above.

> > Regards, Stuart
> > 
> > Peter Barada wrote:
> >> Attached are components containing a new mkyaffs2image tarball, 
> >> patches and .spec file that can deal with a device table, and can be 
> >> used by LTIB to create a YAFFS2 root filesystem image as a new YAFFS2 
> >> deployment method.
> >>
> >> The following patch to current LTIB CVS /should/ get it running (my 
> >> LTIB version is based on version 8.4.1 and hacked up pretty hard so 
> >> YMMV):
> >>
> > [snip]
> > 
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