Methods for Improving Build Tools

[Joel Stanley]

Michael,

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 4:06 AM, Michael Stone <michael at laptop.org> wrote:
>  booting the image. Alternately, improve the "Mounting JFFS2 images" [4]
>  instructions to allow image rewriting on regular linux systems.

>  [4]: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Mounting_jffs2_images

What kind of improvement did you have in mind? Is the task important
enough to have a solution such that an average Fedora/Ubuntu system
could mount a JFFS2 image?

To get there, is it a matter of refining the instructions and perhaps
creating a bundle of the relevant scripts and software? Or does it
require the development of something new?

I don't (yet) have a deep understanding of filesystems nor how the
FUSE works, but would writing a FUSE driver that could mount a jffs2
image be a suitable solution? I am assuming this is possible.

I would like to take up this task. Would it be of a suitable scope for
a Summer of Code project?

Cheers,

Joel