From: Erik Mouw <J.A.K.Mouw@ITS.TUDelft.NL>
To: "Ian S. Nelson" <ian.nelson@echostar.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Loading initrd from flash
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 01:00:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001129010015.E31304@arthur.ubicom.tudelft.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A243CF7.C5CDF90F@echostar.com>
In-Reply-To: <3A243CF7.C5CDF90F@echostar.com>; from ian.nelson@echostar.com on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 04:17:12PM -0700
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 04:17:12PM -0700, Ian S. Nelson wrote:
> Is there a standardized way of doing this yet? I'm not using any MTD
> stuff, yet, and it doesn't look like something that the code currently
> does.
The standard way of doing it on ARM linux systems is that the boot
loader copies the contents of the (compressed) ramdisk from flash to a
place in ram where the kernel expects it to be. Another possibility is
to point the kernel to the flash memory and have it decompressed from
there.
Erik
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