Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 29 Nov 2000 01:00:15 +0100 | From | Erik Mouw <> | Subject | Re: Loading initrd from flash |
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On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 04:17:12PM -0700, Ian S. Nelson wrote: > 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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