RE: About X compile, ramdisks, ...

Do you mean that burn cramfs into flash,and uncompress to memory??
There are 32Mb SDRAM/ 32Mb flash memory in assabet board.

>
> Regarding the ramdisks, we store the compressed ramdisk image into flash,
> and use the initrd mechanism to unpack it to memory at boot time. The
> ramdisks are 16MB uncompressed, ~6MB compressed. If what you downloaded is
> 16MB, then the browser has helpfully uncompressed it for you (without fixing
> the filename suffix). Re-gzip before storing to flash.
>
> How much flash and DRAM on Assabet?
>
> If the firmware on Assabet does not support initrd, it would not be too hard
> to port our bootldr to Assabet. There is also a port of blob to Assabet.

Ya,blob have ported to assabet by me and jeff!

>
> We are working towards using cramfs, JFFS, or a compressed journaling flash
> filesystem to store files in flash, but for now we're using either the
> initrd ramdisk or ext2 on the simple flash block driver written by Nicolas
> Pitre.
>
I got some confuse about flash memory.? Are you mount flash as you root
file system just like a hd block driver??
Is it possible to put kernel and rootfs.gz to flash memory and unpack
kernel
to memory at boot time,then uncompress/mount rootfs.gz on flash for our
basic file system ,likes /usr /lib ...etc???

Thanks,

                                                Chester
Received on Wed Jun 21 20:23:02 2000