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From: Marc Karasek <marckarasek@ivivity.com>
To: Kumba <kumba@gentoo.org>
Cc: linux-mips <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>, zhuzhenhua <zzh.hust@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: how to emdedded ramdisk.gz in vmlinux for linux-2.6.14?
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:27:00 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1137515220.11738.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43CC39A0.8080704@gentoo.org>

Is this a better solution than having the ramdisk embedded? 

It seems that most of the MIPS development is embedded designs and this
could be a problem if it is not :

1) Easier 
or
2) Faster



On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 19:26 -0500, Kumba wrote:
> Marc Karasek wrote:
> > Look under arch/mips/ramdisk (I think).  This is where you should put the ramdisk.gz image and the compiler will pick it up and put it into the vmlinux image for you.  
> 
> Embedded Ramdisk support in 2.6 is deprecated and removed from the tree for 
> kernels >=2.6.10.  You need to use initramfs now to get an embedded userland to 
> work.
> 
> 
> --Kumba
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-17 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-16 14:48 how to emdedded ramdisk.gz in vmlinux for linux-2.6.14? Marc Karasek
2006-01-17  0:26 ` Kumba
2006-01-17 16:27   ` Marc Karasek [this message]
2006-01-18  1:10     ` Kumba
2006-01-19 21:07       ` Marc Karasek
2006-01-19 22:49         ` Stuart Longland
2006-01-20  4:11         ` Kumba
2006-01-20 18:43           ` Marc Karasek
2006-01-20 19:02           ` Marc Karasek
2006-01-20 19:02             ` Marc Karasek
2006-01-20 19:08             ` Stephen P. Becker
     [not found] ` <200601202129.11398.p_christ@hol.gr>
     [not found]   ` <1137786593.22994.46.camel@localhost.localdomain>
     [not found]     ` <200601202203.14325.p_christ@hol.gr>
2006-01-20 20:47       ` Marc Karasek
2006-01-20 21:02         ` P. Christeas
2006-01-20 21:03         ` Wolfgang Denk
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2006-01-20 21:27 Marc Karasek
2006-01-20 21:27 ` Marc Karasek
2006-01-15  4:22 zhuzhenhua

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