From: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome•net>
To: Alex Zeffertt <ajz@cambridgebroadband•com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs•org, geneSmith <gd.smth@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: Viable PPC platform?
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 10:15:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060509171520.GA10886@gate.ebshome.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060509174101.389c67c0.ajz@cambridgebroadband.com>
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 05:41:01PM +0100, Alex Zeffertt wrote:
> On Tue, 09 May 2006 10:38:19 -0400
> geneSmith <gd.smth@gmail•com> wrote:
>
> > I have a ppc405gpr system with 64M ram and 4Meg flash in a
> > AM29LV320. Is this a viable platform for linux? Can a filesystem
> > (JFFS2?) be put this flash type?
> >
>
> I would create an initrd and put every file that doesn't need
> to be changed persistently into it instead of JFFS2.
After many years of doing embedded Linux stuff I still don't
understand why people are so fond of initrd.
For temporary stuff - tempfs is much better and flexible. For r/o
stuff - just make separate MTD partition (cramfs, squashfs) and mount
it directly as root. Both options will waste significantly less
memory.
--
Eugene
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-09 17:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-09 14:38 Viable PPC platform? geneSmith
2006-05-09 15:34 ` Matt Porter
2006-05-09 16:41 ` Alex Zeffertt
2006-05-09 17:15 ` Eugene Surovegin [this message]
2006-05-09 22:31 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-05-22 21:51 ` David Woodhouse
2006-05-22 22:15 ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-05-22 22:21 ` David Woodhouse
2006-05-10 11:11 ` Alex Zeffertt
2006-05-10 16:48 ` Eugene Surovegin
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2006-05-09 22:52 Howard, Marc
2006-05-09 23:00 ` Eugene Surovegin
2006-05-09 23:11 Howard, Marc
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