[FE training-materials-updates] labs/buildroot: add a hint about the JFFS2 image size and the MTD partition

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Fri Nov 7 09:36:25 CET 2014


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Link       : http://git.free-electrons.com/training-materials/commit/?id=68b948287b142dd4aeb5bd8ab165506e091f1033

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commit 68b948287b142dd4aeb5bd8ab165506e091f1033
Author: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
Date:   Fri Nov 7 09:35:09 2014 +0100

    labs/buildroot: add a hint about the JFFS2 image size and the MTD partition
    
    The MTD partition we created for the rootfs in the previous lab has a
    size of 2 MB, which is not large enough for the JFFS2 image generated
    by Buildroot (typically around 3 MB).
    
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>


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68b948287b142dd4aeb5bd8ab165506e091f1033
 labs/sysdev-buildroot/sysdev-buildroot.tex | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/labs/sysdev-buildroot/sysdev-buildroot.tex b/labs/sysdev-buildroot/sysdev-buildroot.tex
index 3ac32db..f5e28aa 100644
--- a/labs/sysdev-buildroot/sysdev-buildroot.tex
+++ b/labs/sysdev-buildroot/sysdev-buildroot.tex
@@ -195,6 +195,9 @@ lab.
     board.
   \end{itemize}
 
+  Once generated, look at the size of your JFFS2 image, and make sure
+  your MTD partition is large enough to hold it!
+
 \item Add dropbear (SSH server and client) to the list of packages
   built by Buildroot and log to your target system using an ssh client
   on your development workstation. Hint: you will have to set a



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