Hi Julien,

Attached is a patch to mkcramfs that adds a "-r" option.  This
reverses the endianness of the CRAMFS filesystem when creating it.
I use this patched mkcramfs to do exactly what you are doing.
It should apply to all kernels up to and including 2.4.18.

Steve


Julien Eyries wrote:
>
> > we use cramfs here and it works without additional parameter. How do you
> > generate the cramfs and on which kind of system are you using it? The
> > mkcramfs tool has an endianess problem so if you do mkcramfs on 86x platform
> > to use it on ppc it wont work. (maybe there is some newer version i am not
> > aware of where that is fixed)
>
> Well it seems it is the problem ... i have generated cramfs on my x86
> and my target is ppc .
> is there a simple trick to make my cramfs image correct for ppc ?
> should i build my cramfs image on the target ?
>
> thanks,
>
> Julien.
>

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