Re: RAMDISK on EP88xc

[Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>]

Mikhail Zaturenskiy wrote:
>>> After doing this testing I have a side question:
>>> If I modify just arch/powerpc/configs/ep88x_defconfig, not all changes
>>> are reflected in the resulting .config when i do "make
>>> ep88x_defconfig; make uImage". I ended up having to modify
>>> arch/powerpc/Kconfig, arch/powerpc/configs/ep88xc_defconfig,
>>> fs/ext2/Kconfig and init/Kconfig to get "make ep88x_defconfig; make
>>> uImage" to create a properly configured image, but this really doesn't
>>> feel right. What's the proper way to set up a defconfig?
>> What changes are you trying to make to the config, and what did you change
>> in the Kconfig files?
>>
> 
> ****************************************************
> in arch/powerpc/Kconfig:
> +	config BLK_DEV_LOOP
> +		tristate
> +		default y
> 
> +	config BLK_DEV_RAM
> +		tristate
> +		default y
> 
> +	config BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT
> +		int
> +		default 16
> 
> +	config BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE
> +		int
> +		default 32768

You should definitely not do that.  In fact, I'm surprised kconfig 
didn't complain about the duplicate symbols.

Perhaps CONFIG_BLK_DEV is unset?

-Scott