From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
Cc: Leonard Ye <leonard_ye@ylez.com>, linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: kernel support of MPC8XX series
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 12:06:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010402100645.DFCD728826@denx.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Apr 2001 11:39:56 +0200." <3AC848EC.92161602@opensource.se>
In message <3AC848EC.92161602@opensource.se> you wrote:
>
> > For us, the majority of devices are memory cards like SanDisk,
> > CompactFlash or IDE harddisk adapters. On one side, the PCMCIA
> > package is a lot of overkill here; on the other side it cannot be
> > used when you want to boot from such a device.
>
> Not really true.
> It _is_ possible to boot with the PCMCIA package, it's just a bit
> harder.
> Use an initrd with a scaled-down PCMCIA package to solve it.
And where do you load this initrd image from?
I am talking about systems that don't have any (significant) flash
onboard. For instance, we have such a setup running on boards with
just 512 kB EPROM (right, EPROM, not flash). We have to load the
kernel and anything else over the PCMCIA interface. I don't see a
ways how this can be done with the normal PCMCIA package.
Wolfgang Denk
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[not found] <Your message of "Fri, 30 Mar 2001 13:21:55 +0800." <5.0.2.1.0.20010330132041.00a65958@pop.ylez.com>
[not found] ` <20010330074730.42B7E28827@denx.denx.de>
2001-04-02 9:00 ` kernel support of MPC8XX series Leonard Ye
2001-04-02 9:26 ` Wolfgang Denk
2001-04-02 9:39 ` Magnus Damm
2001-04-02 10:06 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2001-03-30 5:21 Leonard Ye
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