On 01/03/2013 11:19:35 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
Dear Scott Wood,
> On 12/26/2012 12:26:13 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Marek Vasut <ma...@denx.de>
wrote:
> > > Dear Otavio Salvador,
> > >
> > >> On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Marek Vasut <ma...@denx.de>
> >
> > wrote:
> > >> > Adjust the NAND partitioning layout so that there is a
separate
> >
> > partition
> >
> > >> > for the ramdisk and fdt blob on the NAND.
> > >> >
> > >> > Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <ma...@denx.de>
> > >>
> > >> A partition for a ramdisk? maybe initramfs or initrd might be
> >
> > better?
> >
> > > Separate ramdisk (initrd).
> >
> > So maybe name it 'initrd' in the partition table?
>
> Why bias users against using initramfs instead?
I'm not biasing users against initramfs, but some users simply want
separate
ramdisk outside of the kernel.
initramfs and initrd are different ways of formatting a ramdisk. It's
orthogonal to whether it's separate from the kernel image.
-Scott
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