Re: Initrd?

David Woodhouse
2000-05-11T08:37:04Z

phiggins@transzap.com said:
> Has anyone tried to get the M-Systems driver to work with initrd,
> enabling a Disk on Chip to be the root device without (illegally)
> statically linking the driver?

A reasonable short term solution, but in smaller embedded devices, the
extra code & data required for the ramdisk and initrd support are quite a
significant overhead which it would be nice to render unnecessary.

phiggins@transzap.com said:
> Would the bootloader require special knowledge of Disk on Chip to do
> this?

Not if you still have the M-Systems' firmware in the DiskOnChip, which
emulates the BIOS disk calls. Which you probably do.

phiggins@transzap.com said:
> I would like to use the free drivers that you are developing, but I'm
> afraid they won't be completed in time for my needs. Any suggestions?

Help with the code and/or testing? :) I'm doing my best to arrange matters
so that I get to spend 100% of my time on MTD, but it's taking me a while to
manage that - for some reason, the CEO wants me to spend time on things
which are immediately relevant to company business :)

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