From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott Wood Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 09:53:10 -0600 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] mxs: Add NAND fdt and ramdisk partition to m28evk In-Reply-To: <201301040619.35821.marex@denx.de> (from marex@denx.de on Thu Jan 3 23:19:35 2013) References: <1356484120-15740-1-git-send-email-marex@denx.de> <1357256540.22404.16@snotra> <201301040619.35821.marex@denx.de> Message-ID: <1357314790.666.0@snotra> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On 01/03/2013 11:19:35 PM, Marek Vasut wrote: > Dear Scott Wood, > > > On 12/26/2012 12:26:13 PM, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Marek Vasut > wrote: > > > > Dear Otavio Salvador, > > > > > > > >> On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Marek Vasut > > > > > > wrote: > > > >> > Adjust the NAND partitioning layout so that there is a > separate > > > > > > partition > > > > > > >> > for the ramdisk and fdt blob on the NAND. > > > >> > > > > >> > Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut > > > >> > > > >> A partition for a ramdisk? maybe initramfs or initrd might be > > > > > > better? > > > > > > > Separate ramdisk (initrd). > > > > > > So maybe name it 'initrd' in the partition table? > > > > Why bias users against using initramfs instead? > > I'm not biasing users against initramfs, but some users simply want > separate > ramdisk outside of the kernel. initramfs and initrd are different ways of formatting a ramdisk. It's orthogonal to whether it's separate from the kernel image. -Scott