[Buildroot] Build error

[Ivan Kuten <ivan.kuten@promwad.com>]

Hi Will,

I have not used initramfs, usually qtopia and other large stuff (X.org / GTK ) is run
from jffs2 filesystem on flash, e.g rootfs is not in RAM but in flash.

Have you tried to adjust these kernel settings:
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT=1
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=14000
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_BLOCKSIZE=1024

?

Regards,
Ivan


Will Wagner wrote:
> Ivan,
> 
> Thanks for your help. Think I have worked out the problem. Appeared to 
> have too large a rootfs so that the initramfs being built was very 
> large. Have worked round it for now by reducing the size of the rootfs 
> (qtopia4 was copying some unneeded files).
> 
> Any idea what the size limit is for a rootfs used with initramfs?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Will.
> 
> Ivan Kuten wrote:
>>> Thanks for the hint.
>>>
>>> I have compiled both with and without qtopia4 and got the verbose log. I
>>> can not see any difference on what is on the command line between the
>>> two versions.
>>>
>> Will,
>>
>> I can suggest as workaround to set BR2_KERNEL_none=y
>> and build kernel outside a buildroot tree and see if it working this way.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ivan
> 


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