Is the process still the same. In that you create a ramdisk image that
can be mounted, just using initramfs instead?
We will be moving to 2.6.x for our next chip and currently have scripts
to create a ramdisk with busybox embedded. If these cannot be used
anymore, I may want to take over the patches for ramdisk from you and
maintain them. Otherwise our sdk would have to change and the tools,
etc. and that is not a desireable option......
IMO: Fixing something that was not broken is not a very good idea. :-)
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 20:10 -0500, Kumba wrote:
> Marc Karasek wrote:
> > Is this a better solution than having the ramdisk embedded?
>
> This is embedding the ramdisk. Only in a different way.
>
>
> > It seems that most of the MIPS development is embedded designs and this
> > could be a problem if it is not :
> >
> > 1) Easier
>
> Not exactly easier, initially. I spent near a few weeks figuring initramfs
> out.
> The kernel is rather picky on certain things. The main point is you need
> /init, and if it's a script, then the very first line must be a hashbang
> (!#/bin/blah). Those two gave me headaches for awhile. Other oddities can
> occur that make initramfs a bit of a pain initially.
>
>
> > or
> > 2) Faster
>
> Faster by what? initramfs is unique because it resides on a level above the
> arches, so it tends to be a sort of universal ramdisk. SGI Origin system
> couldn't use ramdisks originally because of their memory structure. They
> can,
> however, use initramfs. I maintained patches for a time (up until ~2.6.13)
> that
> added embedded ramdisk support back into the kernel, but now that I have
> initramfs down pretty well (a tool does the grunt work for my needs,
> actually),
> I'm not going to maintain those patches any longer.
>
>
> --Kumba
>
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