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| author | Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> | 2009-10-30 09:06:47 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> | 2009-10-30 09:06:47 +0100 |
| commit | 5e5f3209f0edcb5ec1e6a1b031331e1828d54eed (patch) | |
| tree | 0a03fae8a233415068618e0a245c4cf9c4da2b65 /docs/buildroot.html | |
| parent | 83f1ec65a0e3488376976754c5662330eab6fb80 (diff) | |
documentation: insist more on why output/target/ should not be used
A lot of people complain that the root filesystem generated by
Buildroot doesn't work because it lacks the device files. This is
because they use output/target/ instead of one of the images.
Therefore, insist in the documentation on this point. Even though I'm
unsure if users really read the documentation :-)
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/buildroot.html')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/buildroot.html | 20 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/docs/buildroot.html b/docs/buildroot.html index 0b2e1b47d..d56b66303 100644 --- a/docs/buildroot.html +++ b/docs/buildroot.html @@ -207,13 +207,19 @@ binaries and libraries, that make it far too big for an embedded system.</li> - <li><code>target/<code> which contains the root filesystem for - the target. Only the necessary files to run the libraries and - applications are installed in this directory. However, - <code>target/dev/</code> doesn't contain the device files, as - creating device files requires the root access. The device files - only exist in the root filesystem image produced by - Buildroot.</li> + <li><code>target/</code> which contains <i>almost</i> the root + filesystem for the target: everything needed is present except + the device files in <code>/dev/</code> (Buildroot can't create + them because Buildroot doesn't run as root and does not want to + run as root). Therefore, this directory <b>should not be used on + your target</b> but instead you should use one of the images + built in the <code>images/</code> directory. If you need an + extracted image of the root filesystem, for booting over NFS, + then use the tarball image generated in <code>images/</code> and + extract it as root.<br/>Compared to <code>staging/</code>, + <code>target/</code> contains only the necessary files to run + the libraries and applications: all the development files + (headers, etc.) are not present.</li> <li><code>host/</code> contains the installation of tools compiled for the host that are needed for the proper execution |