From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: alim.akhtar@samsung.com (Alim Akhtar) Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 10:26:56 +0530 Subject: [RFC PATCH] ARM: exynos_defconfig: Increase CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE to 64K In-Reply-To: <4039144.iLSv7qv3SU@wuerfel> References: <1445251715-9725-1-git-send-email-alim.akhtar@samsung.com> <4039144.iLSv7qv3SU@wuerfel> Message-ID: <56271B18.7030000@samsung.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi Arnd On 10/19/2015 06:52 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Monday 19 October 2015 16:18:35 Alim Akhtar wrote: >> Spam Status: CRM114 >> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE is currently set to 8K, which is a bit on the >> smaller side, lets bump it up to 64K so that a bigger RAM_DISK can >> be used with defconfig. >> >> Signed-off-by: Alim Akhtar >> --- >> Every time I build exynos_defconfig, I need to manually change RAM_SIZE >> to match my ramdisk image size. I am not sure what is the best ramdisk size >> might be, but bumping it to 64K might be a reasonable one. > > Is there still a reason to use ramdisks these days? If 8MB is not > enough to have a useful initrd, that might mean that everyone else > uses initramfs and you should just do the same thing? > There is not specific reason to still use ramdisks, but I feel till we remove this config, lets modify it to be used by few like me. I am ok with either way. Thanks > Then we can also remove this option here. > > Arnd >