From: michael <trimarchi@gandalf.sssup.it>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] ramdisk problem (once again?)
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:07:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47B2CF86.2080501@gandalf.sssup.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080212230705.EC29E24050@gemini.denx.de>
Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <47B2202A.7000807@gandalf.sssup.it> you wrote:
>
>>> The kernel.org tree does not recognize a ramdisk image in flash.
>>> Patches have been posted here since 2.4.17 times, but never made it
>>> upstream. See the archives ...
>>>
>>>
>> If you want to use it, put in ram before... Regards Michael
>>
>
> yesm that's the status quo - but it's plain stupid. Why add another
>
I just answer to the question.
> memory copy of megabytes of data, when the kernel will just read the
> data, uncompres it and write it to some (other) RAM location? The
> flash is mapped anyway (normally), so it just has to check if it's a
> RAM or flash address to decide if it should free that area or not.
> That's a tiny patch, actually.
>
Regards Michael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-13 11:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-12 8:30 [U-Boot-Users] ramdisk problem (once again?) Miguel Angel Alvarez
2008-02-12 22:36 ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-02-12 22:39 ` michael
2008-02-12 23:07 ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-02-13 11:07 ` michael [this message]
2008-02-14 14:10 ` Miguel Angel Alvarez
2008-02-20 6:37 ` Nethra
2008-02-21 19:04 ` [U-Boot-Users] ramdisk problem (once again?) - Solved Miguel Angel Alvarez
2008-02-21 19:45 ` [U-Boot-Users] Taishan linker problem k b
2008-02-21 20:43 ` Wolfgang Denk
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