Re: Requirements for modularisation of the SlugOS kernel

Personally, I think we have to keep in mind that this whole NSLU2
thing is not for the "general" public so I don't think a person
attempting this sort of "hacking" would complain because it's not
plug-and-play. 
Personally I started using the slug because it's cheap, small lean so
 the last thing I want to do with is to have run X-windows with tons
of overhead.

IMHO, it should come barebone (pedal-to-the-medal) with the
infrastructure in place to allow easy additions by the users to
customize their own installations.

Obviously, I'm biased as I use mine for robotics so I have to strip
off all the frills to get it to run as efficiently as possible (and
keep the darn bootup times under 30sec!!)

My 0x02$,

Stephane
http://robotics.no-ip.org
--- In nslu2-developers-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Michael-Luke 
Jones
<mlj28@...> wrote:
>
> Filesystem module loading seems to happen automatically with mount  
> commands in HEAD. Don't ask me how.
> 
> Current behaviour:
> Therefore, novice SlugOS User sits down at NSLU2 booted from flash  
> and plugs in USB Flash Stick.
> The appropriate USB, SCSI and USB storage modules have already been  
> loaded automatically at boot by a script.
> mdev creates the correct device node.
> User types mount (-t vfat) /dev/sda1 /media/usb (or whatever)
> Mount autoloads required filesystem modules into kernel
> USB Disk is mounted
> 
> Therefore, the only interaction currently required is the mount command.
> 
> mdev currently has a single configure file. Scripts can be installed  
> separately, but to get those scripts to execute, /etc/mdev.conf has  
> to be edited. sed may be our best bet here, or alternatively  
> autocreating an mdev.conf by concatenating separate files.
> 
> Have to sleep now, enjoy your day,
> 
> Mike
> 
> On 23 Sep 2006, at 23:02, Rod Whitby wrote:
> 
> > SlugOS is used as the in-flash recovery system for OpenSlug,  
> > DebianSlug and GentooSlug.  Therefore, I must be able to boot  
> > SlugOS to internal flash, plug in a usb flash key (with either ext3  
> > or vfat formatting), and type 'mount' to access the contents.  I  
> > must not be required to remember other arcane commands (such as  
> > modprobe or insmod) between plugging in the usb key and typing  
> > mount. So all the modules required to do this in a modularised  
> > SlugOS kernel must somehow load automatically in this situation.
> > This is a key non-negotiable requirement for SlugOS, and was the  
> > reason why a previous attempt at further modularisation of the usb  
> > and ext3-related parts of the SlugOS kernel was reverted just  
> > before the SlugOS 3.10 release.  The current effort to modularise  
> > must meet this requirement.
> > -- Rod
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