30 Mar
2017
30 Mar
'17
4:19 p.m.
Dear Diego,
In message 3013204.RF8YVXT0ez@localhost.localdomain you wrote:
Which format should be used for the ramdisk? ext3.gz initrd? cpio.gz initramfs?
Actually this is independent of U-Boot.
as I've found the solution, I'll reply myself in the hope it might help somebody in the future.
The format can be both ext3.gz initrd, or cpio.gz, as I've seen a working example of ext3.gz initrd here:
It can be anything that is understood by the Linux kernel you are trying to boot. U-Boot is just the tool that puts the image into memory - all the rest is the responsibility of Linux.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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