23 Apr
2004
23 Apr
'04
4:09 p.m.
In message 4B7EDE41-952E-11D8-88A9-00039390D626@pepper.com you wrote:
I am trying to use the initrd function of u-boot and I think I am almost there. However it does not seem that u-boot is re-locating the initrd into ram from flash. Is it supposed to do this? U-Boot is
No, why should it doe that? It's just an additional memcpy() which takes precious boot time, especially for larger ramdisks.
passing the address of the initrd in flash. How can I make it re-locate into ram first then pass the address to the kernel.
Why would you want to do that? Just pass the address in flash, and let the Linux kernel access the ramdisk in flash...
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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