From: Robert Kaiser <rob@sysgo.de>
To: Vipin Malik <Vipin.Malik@daniel.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, <mtd@infradead.org>
Subject: RE: Using mtdblock as root device
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 15:14:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01030615265401.02401@rob> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <30724FF712DFD2119E6200104B2448920119745E@mail1>
On Die, 06 Mär 2001 you wrote:
> >Now my question is: is there any particular reason (other than "nobody
> >has told Linus") why this is not already in the standard kernel ?
>
>
> because it's easier to do a
> $rdev <your kernel image here> /dev/mtdblock0 before installing
> the kernel with lilo. You don't need to pass any root kernel
> line parameters then.
I'd say since the kernel does support a "root=..." option it might as well
support it for all possible devices rather than just a selection of them.
But that's probably a discussion to be held in linux-kernel.
Rob
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2001-03-06 13:49 Using mtdblock as root device Vipin Malik
2001-03-06 14:14 ` Robert Kaiser [this message]
2001-03-06 14:28 ` David Woodhouse
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2001-03-06 11:38 Robert Kaiser
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2001-03-06 13:37 ` Robert Kaiser
2001-03-07 2:07 ` David Schleef
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