[PATCH 8/9] fsdsosfsname01: Ensure endian correctness

[Sebastian Huber]

On 06/04/2013 03:16 PM, Gedare Bloom wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 4:08 AM, Ralf Kirchner
> <ralf.kirchner at embedded-brains.de> wrote:
>> Hi Cynthia,
>> Please see my replies below.
>>
>> Kind Regards
>>          Ralf Kirchner
>>
>> Am 03.06.2013 16:55, schrieb Rempel, Cynthia:
>>> Could a rule in the Makefile.am be added to generate testsuites/fstests/fsdosfsname01/image_bin_le_multibyte.h and then not include the file in the repo?
>>> If the file is needed for comparing a new build vs. the working build (for testing purposed), then it makes sense to keep image_bin_le_multibyte.h...
>> The problem is that from within the test (running on a simulator like
>> SIS) we do not have access to the file system of the PC on which the
>> test gets executed. This is why the current handling is:
>> If PRINT_DISK_IMAGE != 0, print the disk images to the console and from
>> there copy them manually into the header files.
>> It might be possible to activate this from the Makefile but due to the
>> missing file system access it would still remain a semi-automatic
>> process. This is why I did not take the time to investigate further into
>> activating this from the Makefile.
>
> You can also pack the filesystem into a tarfs / imfs tar file that is
> compiled into the application/test and use untar from memory to unpack
> it. (For example, [1] has a script generate_fs.sh that creates a tar
> image (as a byte array) from the files subdirectory, and then the
> Makefile includes the tar image in the compilation.) I played around
> with Makefile rules to do this, but I don't recall being happy with
> any approach.

No, we need a binary image of a FAT file system for verification.

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