On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:22:22AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:10:51AM +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote: > > Given the simplicity of using MTD and the uclinux.c mapping why > > would you not be using if you have your root fs after your kernel > > binary? > > > > There are other methods, init ramfs, initrd, etc. Don't know if > > anyone has tried them on m68knommu. > > I use initramfs for a rootfs. Works OK, although it seems like it wastes > a lot of ram caching the initramfs files on access which I have no idea > how to make it stop doing (it is totally stupid to do that after all). > I network boot using tftp using a uimage containing a kernel and an > initramfs archive.
Using the initramfs did require adding a patch to allow uboot to pass arguments to the kernel as well as to handle initrd parameters. I submitted it to the kernel list, although I can't remember if it was accepted or not. Looking at the Linus git tree it appears to be in, so it should work fine. -- Len Sorensen _______________________________________________ uClinux-dev mailing list uClinux-dev@uclinux.org http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/listinfo/uclinux-dev This message was resent by uclinux-dev@uclinux.org To unsubscribe see: http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/options/uclinux-dev
