Dear Eddie Dawydiuk, In message <4a6ddf80....@embeddedarm.com> you wrote: > > I'm working on a custom board using an AMCC 440EP that is using a proprietary > bootloader(optimized for fast boot time). Currently our bootloader loads a > simpleImage.initrd into RAM and jumps into it. I originally chose to use a > simpleImage with an initial ramdisk embedded because it was the simplest > solution to debug the hardware and get a kernel and initial ramdisk running > for > development. For production I would prefer to put the initial ramdisk on it's
Hm... isn't that an oxymoron? Trying to optimize for speed on one hand, and using an initrd which is one of the slowest ways to boot on the other hand? > Thanks for any suggestions :) Use another file system (and another fstype) and separate it from the kernel image. See also http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/RootFileSystemSelection Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
