On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 04:33, Sunil P Antony wrote: > > Hello All, > I'm using the romfs on my Intel strata flash which will contain the > kernel > and the application. According to the docs the romfs image is built into the > kernel, I'd like to know if the romfs is also RAM resident all the time or > is there a pointer that might access it from the rom device. The rom disk > driver provided, accesses the FS data through a char array. Incase the romfs > is always RAM resident, i would like to flash the FS image and acccess it > from the flash. Is this possible with the current char array? Or should i > convert it to a binary and then flash the image. > The following link has the details.... > http://romfs.sourceforge.net/ > I am also interested in mounting this root ROMFS onto my flash device. > But > it gives me an "unable to open device" error. The bootargs have been > specified as "root=/dev/flash0 ro console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600". I'm > using a PPC 860 architecture with Linux 2.4. > Hoping someone could help me out in this matter. >
Just a thought: have you considered using JFFS2 instead of the simple ROM filesystem? It's much more flexible and you'll find all of the things you are asking for "just work." -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | MLB Associates | Consulting for the +1 (970) 229-1963 | Embedded world gary at mlbassoc.com | http://www.mlbassoc.com/ | ------------------------------------------------------------ ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
