From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Neil Horman Subject: Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:30:13 -0400 Message-ID: <20090313103013.GA27905@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> References: <49B91A7B.7050303@weinigel.se> <20090312151211.GB24995@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> <49B93777.7030202@weinigel.se> <20090312174933.GC24995@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> <49B95386.2030600@weinigel.se> <20090312190517.GD24995@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> <20090312215919.GA19200@shareable.org> <49B99DF1.9000509@weinigel.se> <20090313002155.GB13764@localhost.localdomain> <49B9B716.4060506@weinigel.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jamie Lokier , davem@davemloft.net, shemminger@vyatta.com, s.hauer@pengutronix.de, yanok@emcraft.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk, netdev@vger.kernel.org, wd@denx.de, dzu@denx.de To: Christer Weinigel Return-path: Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:38703 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754280AbZCMKar (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:30:47 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49B9B716.4060506@weinigel.se> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 02:29:58AM +0100, Christer Weinigel wrote: > Neil Horman wrote: > >> So, I've avoided asking this question, because I didn't want to get off topic, >> but since it appears we're winding up here, I have to ask what your long term >> plan is for your final application. I can understand being hesitant to invest >> in an initramfs when its solely for your intermediate development (even though I >> think that will pay off for you in the long run), but when your development >> ends, and you ship a product, how do you plan to implement your application? I >> would imagine you at least need an initramfs to store, load and run your final >> application don't you? How do you plan on executing it? > > Most probably no ramdisk at all, just the mtd driver and flash file > system driver compiled into the kernel and then "root=/dev/mtdblock4". > Ok, thanks, so you have a place to store user space images. This thread got me wondering what you were going to do long term about user space. I was starting to think as a space saving measure, that you were building your app into the kernel or something. FWIW, I think Uboot has a pretty robust mtd infrastructure that would allow you to store a initramfs image there for use if you were interested in exploring that route. Neil