[U-Boot] using initrd with U-boot on the imx28evk

Bill bsousan at techsi.com
Tue Sep 18 16:16:53 CEST 2012


Good idea.

Best,
Bill


On 9/18/2012 8:36 AM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> Dear Bill,
>
>> Thanks to both of you for following up.  Over the weekend, I switched to
>> using the initramfs within the kernel configuration (in the Freescale
>> kernel) and set the source directory to my rootfs that will be the
>> ramdrive and it worked great!  So I'll stick with this scenario.  It's
>> nice too in that the rootfs (a small one) gets bundled up with the
>> kernel (uImage) so its just one file.  So it works out really nice.
>> This is a good way for upgrading firmware from the flash.
> Don't you want to check latest linux-next for the mx28 CPU?
>
>> Best,
>> Bill
>>
>> On 9/17/2012 4:44 PM, Fabio Estevam wrote:
>>> Bill,
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Marek Vasut<marex at denx.de>   wrote:
>>>> Dear Bill,
>>>>
>>>> I'm CCing Fabio ... he might have some idea for you.
>>> What about starting a thread in linux-arm-kernel for this?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Fabio Estevam
> Best regards,
> Marek Vasut



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