Re: [MIPS] Resolve compile issues with msp71xx configuration

["Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@paralogos.com>]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:21:09AM -0600, Shane McDonald wrote:
>   
>> 4. Remove the entire get_ramroot() code, both squashfs and cramfs, as
>> Christoph has suggested.  I am hesitant to do this as it also affects code
>> in the MTD subsystem (file maps/pmcmsp-ramroot.c), and it also loses some
>> functionality on the PMC boards (putting the rootfs in RAM immediately
>> following the kernel).  Perhaps there's a better way to handle this?
>>     
>
> If the rootfs really is in ram only (and thus you discard any changes to
> it) you can just use an initramfs which is a lot simpler than any of the
> cramfs and squashfs hacks and supported by platform-independent code.
>   
I second that emotion.

          Kevin K.