[U-Boot-Users] ramdisk problem (once again?)

michael
2008-02-13T11:07:50Z

Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <47B2202A.7000807@gandalf.sssup.it> you wrote:
>
>>> The kernel.org tree does not recognize a ramdisk image in flash.
>>> Patches have been posted here since 2.4.17 times, but never made it
>>> upstream. See the archives ...
>>>
>>>
>> If you want to use it, put in ram before... Regards Michael
>>
>
> yesm that's the status quo - but it's plain stupid. Why add another
>
I just answer to the question.
> memory copy of megabytes of data, when the kernel will just read the
> data, uncompres it and write it to some (other) RAM location? The
> flash is mapped anyway (normally), so it just has to check if it's a
> RAM or flash address to decide if it should free that area or not.
> That's a tiny patch, actually.
>
Regards Michael