Re: [microblaze-uclinux] uClinux finally works

[John Williams <jwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ivan wrote:
> 
> # mb-flthdr -z busybox
> zflat busybox --> busybox
> 
> # ls -lah busybox
> -rwxr--r--   24 ivan     ivan          83K 2004-03-04 23:40 busybox
> 
> # mb-flthdr busybox
> busybox
>     Magic:        bFLT
>     Rev:          4
>     Build Date:   Thu Mar  4 13:22:06 2004
>     Entry:        0x50
>     Data Start:   0x2dc80
>     Data End:     0x32ad0
>     BSS End:      0x33dc0
>     Stack Size:   0x4e20
>     Reloc Start:  0x32ad0
>     Reloc Count:  0xd8f
>     Flags:        0x5 ( Load-to-Ram Gzip-Compressed )
> 
> Great!!! 

much better!  Don't forget you'll need to enable zflat support in the 
kernel config, it's under kernel settings -> General Setup.

>>Yesterday, just for an experiment, I tried building the Samba supprt and 
>>applications.  It worked immediately, I was able to mount our intranet 
>>Samba share on my microblaze uClinux box!  This sort of interoperability 
>>is what makes uClinux so powerful.
> 
> Ohhhhh!!! Incredible!!! 

yeah, all I could say when it worked was "wow"...

> Then is possible to design applications for
> uClinux-MicroBlaze on a PC and mounting the work directory, the
> MicroBlaze can execute them...  as a hard remote disk :P

precisely - it's the only way to go.  no point rewriting the entire 
flash etc, just mount a network drive, build on the host, test on the 
board.. too easy, and so much faster

NFS has been working for ages, but SMB is much more secure.  The 
smbmount apps are huge, around 150K compressed, so it's not really 
practical.. but it is cool :)

John

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