From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: michael Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:07:50 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] ramdisk problem (once again?) In-Reply-To: <20080212230705.EC29E24050@gemini.denx.de> References: <20080212230705.EC29E24050@gemini.denx.de> Message-ID: <47B2CF86.2080501@gandalf.sssup.it> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de 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