[Buildroot] Atmel file system skeleton missing /sys directory

Roberto A. Foglietta roberto.foglietta at gmail.com
Sat Oct 18 07:52:16 UTC 2008


2008/10/18 John Schimandle <john_schimandle at hotmail.com>:
> I'm still working through my issues with programming on the at91sam9263ek
> board and discovered a bug in the Atmel root file system skeleton directory.
> The  root file system was missing the /sys directory and that caused sysfs
> to not mount at boot time. I manually added the sys directory to
> target/device/Atmel/root/target_skeleton. removed the
> target_build_arm/at91sam9263ek/.root file, rebuilt buildroot and that fixed
> the problem.
>
> I would like to propogate the patch into the buildroot system but I don't
> know the appropriate place to fix the problem.
>
> Any help would be appreciated. Just trying to fix things so other people
> don't run into the same problem.
>

 Playing with the i386 target I see /proc /sys and sometime /usr/lib
are missing. The last one in particular when no any package 'mkdir' it
the main 'make' fails in running a 'find' in that not existent
directory.

 Thanks,
-- 
/roberto



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