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SubjectRe: [PATCH 06/14] Pramfs: Include files
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On Monday 22 June 2009, Marco Stornelli wrote:
> > It's still a problem. You might be creating a file system image
> > for an embedded board with a different endianess.
>
> It's not possible to create an "image" with pramfs, it's like tmpfs.

But the data is persistant, you even support using it as a root file
system, so the data has to have a way to get there. Even if you
don't do it right now, I don't see any fundamental limitation that
prevents you from creating an image on one machine and dumping it
into the nvram of another machine as part of manufacturing or testing.

> > Or even on the same machine, you could be looking at the file system contents
> > with a 32 bit process running on a 64 bit kernel.
>
> Yes, indeed the most important thing is to be sure that a 64bit kernel
> works well. I'll try to test it in this environment. If there are
> "64bit guys" to help me to test it, it'd be great.

This particular problem (__kernel_off_t on 64-bit machines) can be avoided
by just switching to __kernel_loff_t, which is 64 bit long on all machines,
while __kernel_off_t is always the register length (32 or 64 bits).

Arnd <><


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