Re: initrd and uImage

2008-08-11 Thread Tim Bird
Fundu wrote: Hi, First off i have a ppc based board. and i'm trying to load a kernel image with ramdisk rootfs. i have build the kernel. it spit uImage,zImage and vmlinux.gz my question are. 1) what are all the different image types ? i know the uImage is just the kernel, what are the

Re: [PATCH] bootup: Add built-in kernel command line for x86

2008-08-11 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Tim Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Add support for a built-in command line for x86 architectures. The Kconfig help gives the major rationale for this addition. i have actually used a local hack quite similar to this to inject boot options into bzImages via randconfig - so i would find this

Re: [PATCH] bootup: Add built-in kernel command line for x86

2008-08-11 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Tim Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Add support for a built-in command line for x86 architectures. The Kconfig help gives the major rationale for this addition. i have actually used a local hack quite similar to this to inject boot options into bzImages via randconfig -

Re: initrd and uImage

2008-08-11 Thread Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
On 09:42 Fri 08 Aug , Fundu wrote: Hi, First off i have a ppc based board. and i'm trying to load a kernel image with ramdisk rootfs. Which version of U-Boot do you use? Which features do you enable? i have build the kernel. it spit uImage,zImage and vmlinux.gz my question are. 1)

Re: [PATCH] bootup: Add built-in kernel command line for x86

2008-08-11 Thread Tim Bird
H. Peter Anvin wrote: Ingo Molnar wrote: * Tim Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Add support for a built-in command line for x86 architectures. The Kconfig help gives the major rationale for this addition. i have actually used a local hack quite similar to this to inject boot options into