I highly recommend looking at the UClibC project. Erik's code is a pleasure to
work with. http://www.uclibc.org/
It is even possible to build libstdc++ with UClibC, if you are so inclined...
And, a number of commercial projects use UClibC , such as Linksys:
http://lkml.org/archive/2003/6/7/164/index.html
and Belkin:
http://lkml.org/archive/2003/6/8/31/index.html
<shameless YRO plug>
-Jeff
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 07:37:19PM +0200, Baruch Chaikin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm using MIPS kernel 2.4.18 with NFS file system mounted on a RedHat
> machine. This works fine, but is unsuitable for system deployment. Do
> you have hints for me where to start, in order to put the file system on
> flash? The platform I'm using is very limited - only one MTD block of
> 2.5 MB is available for the file system, out of a 4 MB flash:
> 0.5 MB is allocated for the firmware code
> 1.0 MB for the compressed kernel image
> 2.5 MB for the (compressed?) file system
>
> For example, I've noticed LibC itself is ~5 MB !
>
> Thanks for any tip,
> - Baruch.
>
>
>
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Jeffrey Baitis - Associate Software Engineer
Evolution Robotics, Inc.
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