hi, Am Samstag, den 31.01.2009, 16:12 +0000 schrieb Paul Jakma: > > though the problem might be size here, you would probably need to > > strip the defaults a bit to get an initramfs that matches the usual > > size constraints you have on MTD devices ... (an initramfs of the > > current ubuntu versatile flavour is actually 2.7M big, i dont know > > the numbers for debian here but assume they are not massively > > different) > > It's 3.4M on my N2100. Size isn't a tight constraint as it was > originally designed to have userspace hosted on flash - so there's > nearly 10MB more to spare. well, if we would build such a solution that should be indeed something thats genrally usable on all arm systems in a way that you need to configure your bootloader only once in the lifetime of the board and then subsequent changes can be done in a textfile in /boot from the OS side. our approcach isnt limited to a single piece of HW so the size should be usable on the broadest range we can match. 10M are surely plenty but i imagine that you might find arm devices with only 4M in the wild so it gets tight if you want to fit in a kernel, bootloader and initramfs (though i think 4M should be the minimal limit here). ciao oli
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