[U-Boot-Users] ROMFS & Uboot.

Christophe.LINDHEIMER at fr.thalesgroup.com Christophe.LINDHEIMER at fr.thalesgroup.com
Wed Jun 11 10:04:02 CEST 2003


Hi.

> 
> 
> Hi,
> If you have enough FLASH why do you want to use initrd. 

In fact, it seems it is a stupid idea to use initrd :-) ( Linux newbie idea
... )

> Make you ROMFS, build 
> a kernel that supports it with the good flash parameters 
> (start,length,CFI or 
> not,...) set as root filesystem the flash device 
> (/dev/mtdblock0 ) and go on. 
> It works (It tested with CRAMFS which is a Compressed ROM file system 
> uncompressing in RAM).
> 

Ok. Thanks.

> Do it the easy way.
> 
> Benoit Callebaut
> 




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