# # For a description of the syntax of this configuration file, # see the file kconfig-language.txt in the NuttX tools repository. # config FS_HOSTFS bool "Host File System" default n depends on !DISABLE_MOUNTPOINT ---help--- The Host file system provides a mechanism to mount directories from the host OS during simulation mode. The host directory to be "mounted" is specified during the mount command using the -o command line switch, such as: mount -t hostfs -o fs=/home/user/nuttx_root /host For non-NSH operation, the option "fs=home/user/nuttx_root" would be passed to the 'mount()' routine using the optional 'void *data' parameter. The backend implementation is arch-dependent. As of writing this, it's implemented for sim, arm and xtensa. Note: depending on the backend implementions, hostfs might only provide very restricted subset of filesystem operations. Sim: It's implemented with direct calls to the host OS API. It likely consumes a lot of stack than ordinary NuttX codebase. You likely need to make task stack sizes huge (e.g. 64KB) to avoid stack overrun. Arm, xtensa: It's implemented using a special CPU instruction to trigger a trap for a hypervisor. If you are using qemu, it has the `-semihosting` command line option to enable the handling of the trap. Theoretically, it can work for other environments as well. E.g. a real hardware + JTAG + OpenOCD.