On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 05:41:01PM +0100, Alex Zeffertt wrote: > On Tue, 09 May 2006 10:38:19 -0400 > geneSmith <gd.smth at gmail.com> wrote: > > > I have a ppc405gpr system with 64M ram and 4Meg flash in a > > AM29LV320. Is this a viable platform for linux? Can a filesystem > > (JFFS2?) be put this flash type? > > > > I would create an initrd and put every file that doesn't need > to be changed persistently into it instead of JFFS2.
After many years of doing embedded Linux stuff I still don't understand why people are so fond of initrd. For temporary stuff - tempfs is much better and flexible. For r/o stuff - just make separate MTD partition (cramfs, squashfs) and mount it directly as root. Both options will waste significantly less memory. -- Eugene
