Hello Jose, On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 05:03:27AM +0200, Jose Luis Zabalza wrote: > Hello all > > I'm trying write some code into barebox and I have seen things that > caught my attention. > > 1.- Modules on barebox. lsmod, insmod commands, EXPORT_SYMBOL() macro. > What is the purpouse of these ? Modules have no means less memory > footprint ;-?? We have modules support because we can ;) I haven't used it in production yet, but there are usecases for it. I'm currently porting UBI to barebox and it turns out to be quite huge (~40k). You normally do not need UBI support for normal booting, but you need it for updating UBI images. So you could make a module from it and load it on demand. > 2.- usb command is on drivers/usb/usb.c file. What is the reason why > it is not on commands dir? Some commands are in other directory because they are close to a particular framework. We could move it to commands though. > 3.- What is the purpouse of usb command. Discover devices but after I > can't read because I have not drivers associates to them. Actually, is > there any way to read them? You probably tried an USB memory stick. These are not yet supported. Barebox currently only supports USB network adapters. > 4.- Does anyone use the usb for anything other than firmwarize the > device with DFU? Yes, for networking on boards which do not have a NIC, like the Beagle Board. Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox
