Can someone tell me where I can find documentation or a site on building a "Userland" for an embedded system? I cant seem to find out what this should be.
- Adam
Building a User-Land
Oct 08, 2003
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Can someone tell me where I can find documentation or a site on building a "Userland" for an embedded system? I cant seem to find out what this should be.
- Adam
That depends entirely on your application. The kernel runs /sbin/init at boot time; whatever init does is up to you.
For many embedded Linux projects, the userland is mostly just BusyBox. See
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Grant Taylor - gtaylorpicante.com - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
Linux Printing Website and HOWTO: http://www.linuxprinting.org/
I use busybox heavily, but I often find I need a few other things.
Adam, if you're using uClibc, you should check out buildroot at uclibc.org, it's a Makefile that knows how to build a userland.
If you're using glibc, you should check out ptxdist, which is a similar thing that can handle both uClibc and glibc. It's at
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but it's not quite polished yet, so if you want to use it, expect to have to ask a few questions on their mailing list. I'm pumping new packages into ptxdist as fast as I can; we added libpcap, libnet, and nmap recently, and I see oprofile's already there...
- Dan
Sorry to take so long to answer back. Thanks for the advice on Busybox ...
I will check out "uClibc" for future projects.
Well anyway I am going to build my userland with the following ->
Busybox, Vim, Pcmcia-CS, and Glibc ...
Thank you for pointing me in the right direction
- Adam
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