From: Brian Murphy <brian@murphy.dk>
To: Tibor Polgar <tpolgar@freehandsystems.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: Ramdisk image on flash.
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 20:42:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E552F93.7070104@murphy.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3E552CDF.ECD08EEF@freehandsystems.com
Tibor Polgar wrote:
>Pete Popov wrote:
>
>
>>On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 22:05, Krishnakumar. R wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Is there any way that I can keep
>>>a ramdisk image (containing the root filesystem)
>>>in a flash device and boot to it.
>>>
>>>
>>Yes, and other architectures have support for passing arguments to the
>>kernel that tell it where the ramdisk is. I don't know that we've done
>>that for MIPS, yet. It wouldn't be too hard to do and maybe someone on
>>this list is already working on it (I think someone actually is working
>>on it and was preparing a patch for Ralf).
>>
>>
>
>For having separate initrd and kernel load we also need an aware bootloader
>that knows where to find the ramdisk. RedBoot, from what i read, seems to be
>i386 specific. The Yamon i've patched "COULD" be made to do it.
>
>
RedBoot is very portable and not at all i386 specific. I just ported it
to the LASAT
boards I support in the linux kernel - it took a few days. When you have
ported it
you almost instantly have a really nice embedded operating system too.
Perhaps
you were confusing it with GRUB?
How this helps with ramdisks I don't know :-).
/Brian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-20 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-20 6:05 Ramdisk image on flash Krishnakumar. R
2003-02-20 18:27 ` Pete Popov
2003-02-20 19:30 ` Tibor Polgar
2003-02-20 19:41 ` Mark Salter
2003-02-20 20:01 ` Tibor Polgar
2003-02-20 20:16 ` Mark Salter
2003-02-20 20:35 ` Dan Malek
2003-02-20 20:44 ` Jun Sun
2003-02-20 20:57 ` Pete Popov
2003-02-20 21:24 ` Dan Malek
2003-02-20 20:37 ` Jun Sun
2003-02-20 21:08 ` Guido Guenther
2003-02-20 21:12 ` Alan Cox
2003-02-20 19:41 ` Pete Popov
2003-02-20 19:42 ` Brian Murphy [this message]
2003-02-20 20:59 ` Guido Guenther
2003-02-20 21:27 ` Dan Malek
2003-02-21 2:24 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2003-02-21 20:25 ` fixup_bigphys_addr and DBAu1500 dev board Jeff Baitis
2003-02-21 20:40 ` Dan Malek
2003-02-21 22:10 ` Pete Popov
2003-02-22 3:50 ` Jeff Baitis
2003-02-23 9:19 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-02-24 17:46 ` Pete Popov
2003-02-25 21:54 ` Jeff Baitis
2003-02-25 22:05 ` Pete Popov
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