[ELDK] INITRD or INITRAMFS ?

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Wed Sep 30 17:01:57 CEST 2009


Dear "J.Hwan.Kim",

In message <4AC359EA.7060504 at gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> Is the method for making RAMDISK described in DULG manual for INITRD or 
> INITRAMFS?
> If it is for INITRD, is there any description or articles for making ARM 
> INTRAMFS?

Why would you want to build a ram based file system for your target?
In almost all situations this is NOT an optimal solution (see section
"Root File System Selection" in the DULG [1]).

[1] http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/RootFileSystemSelection

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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