On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 09:11:36AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > copy compressed initrd (ramdisk) image to ram
>
> Why do this copy? Why not just have the real Linux kernel deal with the
> flash chip too, and mount a cramfs from there?
Because it's really, really easy to just let the ramdisk be read/write. I
can do logging and other necessary things (temp files, lock file,
whatever) without worrying about how to do it. All the changes are simply
lost every reboot, but that's OK in my case.
Plus, I doubt cramfs was even an option when I started my project with a
commercial bios (around 2.2.0), so I was sort of stuck with what was
available at the time. I don't think linuxbios existed at the time
either. Maybe Ron could tell us when linuxbios first started?
Eric
