From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 20 Feb 2003 21:32:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from 154-84-51-66.reonbroadband.com ([IPv6:::ffff:66.51.84.154]:59008 "EHLO tibook.netx4.com") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 21:32:42 +0000 Received: from embeddededge.com (IDENT:dan@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by tibook.netx4.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h1KLRoP01265; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 16:27:50 -0500 Message-ID: <3E554856.4010306@embeddededge.com> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 16:27:50 -0500 From: Dan Malek Organization: Embedded Edge, LLC. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020411 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Guido Guenther CC: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Ramdisk image on flash. References: <200302201135.09154.krishnakumar@naturesoft.net> <1045765647.30379.262.camel@zeus.mvista.com> <20030220205911.GB27240@bogon.ms20.nix> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 1493 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: dan@embeddededge.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Guido Guenther wrote: > We're using a patch for the debian kernels that allows to pass the > initrd's loadaddress and size on the kernel's command line. If this is of > some use I can send a patch. Thanks. I think that patch has been posted in the past because I am using it in what I am doing. I would actually like to pass this as enviornment variables, since the command lines are getting quite long in some cases and IMHO should really reflect general driver/kernel options. -- Dan