Re: AmigaONE && Debian (unstable?)

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 11:11, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
> 
> > > U-Boot comes with a tool that does more or less the same as
> > > mkvmlinuz, called mkimage (takes in an elf and an optional ramdisk
> > > image and outputs a bootable image)
> > 
> > That's crap.  Fine for embedded maybe, but it should really be able
> > to load a plain vmlinux.
> 
> Does that include a ramdisk?  My understanding was that you need
> either a bootloader or a bootable image like the one describer above
> in order to boot an initrd kernel.  On sub-architectures that don't
> have a bootloader, such as PReP or CHRP, this leaves only the bootable
> image.

Can't uboot load the ramdisk separately like yaboot can ? It's also
possible to extend on the existing miboot.image which is parseable and
contains both kernel & ramdisk, rather than defining yet another image
format ...

Ben;