In message <B78930B8E34A824993912C39C24569E60141D874@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote: > > There are three issues in building an embedded cross-filesystem: > 1. Identification of the files to put into the filesystem. > 2. Stripping or extracting debug symbols from the filesystem. > 3. Getting files into the filesystem when the development > system does not allow root access. 3. is a non-issue for most common file systems. > The third item is easy for an initramfs, but not well handled > by existing tools for an initrd (although I haven't looked > recently). One possibility is to modify a mkfs program, such genext2fs has been around for a long, long time. And there are similar tools for other file system types like cramfs or jffs2 ... Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@xxxxxxx The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner. - Mark Twain -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html