[U-Boot-Users] Filesystem required or not?

[Robert Schwebel]

On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 02:50:43AM +0000, Deya wrote:
>      I am working with PXA255. I have the bootloader(u-boot) and linux
>      kernel ported to arm. I will have my bootlaoder, linux OS in
>      Flash. I want to have my linux OS up in the board. What else do i
>      need to do? Do I need a file system for flash?

You _can_ use a filesystem, but you don't have to. You can, for example,
use a JFFS2 (r/w) or a cramfs (r/o) directly on the flash - this is
surely the most elegant way to bring the userland into the machine. 

Robert
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