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15 years ago

Updating e2fsprogs for ext4 support

I'm wanting to experiment with the performance capabilities of EXT4 on a Compact Flash on my Cyclone II Dev Board . In the filesystems I have enabled EXT4 and I've got my Compact Flash mounted ...
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15 years ago

You can update an app or library in uClinux-dist something like this:

Find if there are any patches/differences in the uClinux-dist version to the same version from upstream.

Put the new version next to the old version in the directory (i.e. uClinux-dist/user/appname).

Apply any patches to the new version.

Modify the top level Makefile for that app to use the new version.

Hope that it just works. ;)