Re: What about ARM?
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Jim Studt wrote:
> That should work well. I need to get a patch floated out as well, it
> embeds the root into the kernel so the kernel loader ends up doing all
> the work.
Do you mean it loads the initrd from the ROM as a block of data tacked
onto the kernel image?
> This is how we boot entirely out of flash on the NetWinder.
Have you seen cramfs in the latest 2.3.35 kernel? It looks pretty cool;
it's a lightweight compressed read only file system intended mainly for
embedding into ROMs.
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