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Pete Popov wrote:
> 
> Any reason why we don't have a single directory for a ramdisk linker
> script and Makefile? I've attached that does that. You just put a
> ramdisk.gz image in arch/mips/ramdisk and turn on initrd support. At
> somepoint I'll upload some useful ramdisks to the sourceforge linux-mips
> anonymous ftp site.
> 

This is a good idea.  People don't have to maintain a separate script to
generate the ram root fs.

BTW, I created 1.4 MB busybox ram fs for mips-le.  You can find it at

	http://65.5.25.179/linux.

Jun