| To: | Marc Karasek <marckarasek@ivivity.com> |
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| Subject: | Re: how to emdedded ramdisk.gz in vmlinux for linux-2.6.14? |
| From: | Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> |
| Date: | Fri, 20 Jan 2006 22:03:32 +0100 |
| Cc: | "P. Christeas" <p_christ@hol.gr>, Linux-Mips <linux-mips@linux-mips.org> |
| In-reply-to: | Your message of "Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:47:33 EST." <1137790053.22994.58.camel@localhost.localdomain> |
| Original-recipient: | rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org |
| Sender: | linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org |
In message <1137790053.22994.58.camel@localhost.localdomain> you wrote: > Basically due to design issues and cost issues having a flash based > system is not possible. Currently we have only 16MB total of flash and If you have enough flash to store a compressed ramdisk image, you can store a compressed flash file system as well. For example, you could use a cramfs file system. In most cases the ramdisk solution is the worst option to chose. See for example http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/RootFileSystemSelection Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@denx.de There are bugs and then there are bugs. And then there are bugs. - Karl Lehenbauer |
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