[U-Boot-Users] "Problem in increasing initrd(RAMDISK) size"

[Leif Lindholm]

Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>>Yes, this is actually a braindead enough solution that the ramdisk is
>>compressed _twice_, but on the mips (2.4 series Linux), embedded ramdisk
>>has been so widely used that noone seems to have noticed that regular
>>initrd support is broken. This is fixed for 2.6 though.
> 
> I don't know which kernel tree you are talking about. On the few MIPS
> boards we support ramdisk support is working fine.

Just for the record/mailing list archive:
Initrd support for linux-mips.org CVS, 2.4 branch, is hard-coded for
embedded ramdisk in au1000/common/setup.c

Hence, normal ramdisk support does not work on 2.4 for any of the au1xxx
boards.

/
	Leif