Technicalities » embedded http://www.sirena.org.uk/log Just another random blog Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:41:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Linux kernel needs a case sensitive filesystem http://www.sirena.org.uk/log/2008/09/12/the-linux-kernel-needs-a-case-sensitive-filesystem/ http://www.sirena.org.uk/log/2008/09/12/the-linux-kernel-needs-a-case-sensitive-filesystem/#comments Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:39:44 +0000 Mark Brown http://www.sirena.org.uk/log/?p=116 The Linux kernel source relies on a case sensitive filesystem. If you attempt to get the sources via git this will manifest as an error along the lines of:

fatal: Entry 'include/linux/netfilter/xt_CONNMARK.h

There are several header files like this the names of which differ only in case and just can’t be represented on a filesystem that doesn’t distinguish between cases. This is most commonly seen by people attempting to build embedded Linux from Windows.

]]> http://www.sirena.org.uk/log/2008/09/12/the-linux-kernel-needs-a-case-sensitive-filesystem/feed/ 11 ARM Linux git tree http://www.sirena.org.uk/log/2008/04/02/arm-linux-git-tree/ http://www.sirena.org.uk/log/2008/04/02/arm-linux-git-tree/#comments Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:19:48 +0000 Mark Brown http://www.sirena.org.uk/log/?p=76 It’s surprisingly poorly advertised but there is an ARM Linux git tree available from http://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/pub/armlinux/kernel/git-cur/ and ftp://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/pub/armlinux/kernel/git-cur/ with currently accepted patches queued up in it. Very handy, especially for offline use.

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