Loading initrd from flash
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.
Ian
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Quoted 3 lines · Ian S. Nelson
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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