From: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel•crashing.org>
To: Ashwin Bihari <raz0redge@hotmail•com>
Cc: mporter@kernel•crashing.org, linuxppc-embedded@lists•linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Intial ramdisk and kernel
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 19:11:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031223191155.A27198@home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY9-F24HxekU9Cwu2I000aa743@hotmail.com>; from raz0redge@hotmail.com on Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 06:58:01PM -0500
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 06:58:01PM -0500, Ashwin Bihari wrote:
> >With the stock firmware on a PrPMC800, yes, you have to attach the
> >ramdisk to the kernel. You do this by copying the compressed ramdisk
> >image to arch/ppc/boot/images/ramdisk.image.gz. Then do a
> >'make zImage.initrd'. That will deposit a zImage+initrd image into
> >arch/ppc/boot/images/.
>
> Matt,
>
> Ahh OK. Thank you for the details.
>
> >If you have a U-boot port to your board then you can be a lot more
> >flexible since it can load a kernel image and ramdisk separately.
> >
> >-Matt
>
> We are using PPCBug actually. Not sure if you're familiar with it's
> capabilities in comparison to U-boot in ramdisk booting ability.
Yes, very familiar with PPCBug. That is the "stock firmware" I
mentioned above. The resultant zImage+initrd image is bootable
from PPCBug.
-Matt
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-23 23:58 Intial ramdisk and kernel Ashwin Bihari
2003-12-24 2:11 ` Matt Porter [this message]
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2003-12-24 5:04 Ashwin Bihari
2003-12-23 21:54 Ashwin Bihari
2003-12-23 23:50 ` Matt Porter
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