Thanks to both of you for following up. Over the weekend, I switched to
using the initramfs within the kernel configuration (in the Freescale
kernel) and set the source directory to my rootfs that will be the
ramdrive and it worked great! So I'll stick with this scenario. It's
nice too in
Dear Bill,
Thanks to both of you for following up. Over the weekend, I switched to
using the initramfs within the kernel configuration (in the Freescale
kernel) and set the source directory to my rootfs that will be the
ramdrive and it worked great! So I'll stick with this scenario. It's
Good idea.
Best,
Bill
On 9/18/2012 8:36 AM, Marek Vasut wrote:
Dear Bill,
Thanks to both of you for following up. Over the weekend, I switched to
using the initramfs within the kernel configuration (in the Freescale
kernel) and set the source directory to my rootfs that will be the
Dear Bill,
In message 505875a7.3040...@techsi.com you wrote:
Thanks to both of you for following up. Over the weekend, I switched to
using the initramfs within the kernel configuration (in the Freescale
kernel) and set the source directory to my rootfs that will be the
ramdrive and it
Dear Bill,
I'm CCing Fabio ... he might have some idea for you.
Marek,
Yes, I checked the kernel and it is enabled for ramdisk support in
Linux, gzip compression, and loop back block driver. I did find some
other posts where some folks added the address of the ram drive. So I
Bill,
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Marek Vasut ma...@denx.de wrote:
Dear Bill,
I'm CCing Fabio ... he might have some idea for you.
What about starting a thread in linux-arm-kernel for this?
Regards,
Fabio Estevam
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Marek,
Yes, I checked the kernel and it is enabled for ramdisk support in
Linux, gzip compression, and loop back block driver. I did find some
other posts where some folks added the address of the ram drive. So I
changed the kernel arguments from:
setenv bootargs
Dear Bill,
Has anyone used U-boot on the imx28evk with initrd to setup a small
rootfs in RAM? I need the ability to do have a small temp rootfs to
assist in mounting a full rootfs from a USB for field upgrade purposes.
Yes, it's a linux thingie though. What's the problem? What version of
I'm using U-boot version: U-Boot 2012.07
Through googling, I've come across several variations of using a
ramdisk. So I selected some things that looked good. So basically, I
am building a rootfs as a ramdisk by:
dd if=/dev/zero of=./myinitrd.img bs=1M count=35
mke2fs -m 1
Dear Bill,
I'm using U-boot version: U-Boot 2012.07
Through googling, I've come across several variations of using a
ramdisk. So I selected some things that looked good. So basically, I
am building a rootfs as a ramdisk by:
dd if=/dev/zero of=./myinitrd.img bs=1M count=35
Has anyone used U-boot on the imx28evk with initrd to setup a small
rootfs in RAM? I need the ability to do have a small temp rootfs to
assist in mounting a full rootfs from a USB for field upgrade purposes.
Thanks,
Bill
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