On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Gaixia Zhang wrote:
> This works, but it isn't very clever in the way it enough RAM for the
> compressed ramdisk is available at a fixed address and wont be overwritten
> by the initialising kernel.
>
> I don't know how best to improve this. I'd like to add a routine to
> arch/arm/kernel/setup.c to copy the ramdisk image from FLASH to RAM if
> initrd_start is a FLASH address, but I don't know if that would be the
> right thing to do.
I don't think so.
Probably the best is to set initrd_start so it points directly to your
initrd in flash. Of course the flash must be mapped. Then prevent
free_initrd_mem() from freeing memory that isn't actually RAM pages.
Nicolas
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