On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 02:55, stephane ancelot wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I know and I agree with every one this is possible to generate this system
> , BUT the main problem is in the possibility to make evolve this system and 
> the tools to create and maintain it .(I think this is  the awaited  added 
> value) 
> 
> Gentoo seems a good choice , because you may be able to upgrade your system.
> 
> I know there are tools that have been developped like catalyst. Is it a good 
> choice in this case ?
> 
> Building an embedded system from scratch will work, but you are faced to 
> evolution problem.I agree that embedded system must not evolve every day, but 
> every year our customers are requestings for new features in there machines. 
> we should be able to add these new features with the today 's tools and 
> technologies (ex : wifi was not really implemented fin industry ew years 
> ago....)
> 
> Thanks for your replies.
> 
> I will try catalyst and will give you my feedback .

catalyst probably needs some work in this area. (patches welcome)
Like the ability to create read-only cramfs/squashfs/jffs2/etc file
systems.  I think currently it's setup to spit out an ext{2,3} file.