[U-Boot] Using an initramfs in SDRAM

Wolfgang Denk
2011-02-17T15:31:33Z

Dear "Boswell, Patrick",

In message <0E62BBF85AF134469094EB502CE90A321EAC24@TAMPA202EM.se.sypris.com> you wrote:
>
> What bootargs should I pass to have a JTAG preloaded initramfs in SDRAM
> be used by a booting Linux (2.6.32) kernel

This is a Linux question, not an U-oot one, so you are actually off
topic here.

> Will a bootarg like "root=0x8f000000" work instead of
> "root=/dev/mmcblk0p2"?

No, it will not work. You want to read
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt and Documentation/initrd.txt in
your Linux kernel tree.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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