On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Rob Landley wrote: > On Saturday 31 May 2008 07:44:14 Phil Wilshire wrote: >> I hope this is the right place and the right sort of question. >> >> I work closely with the Blackfin systems and they have now integrated >> the initramfs generation into their system build. The result is great >> the root fs is ready to run from the page cache. > > Is it possible to get blackfin working with a vanilla gcc release yet, or do > you still need out-of-tree patches? (I have a blackfin board I got at OLS, > but it needs a toolchain I can't reproduce.) there's plenty of usable binaries available > fact it would be really nice if qemu grew blackfin support because messing i imagine it would be ... too bad qemu lacks real documentation >> There is one problem that I can see that may be more serious for >> embedded users. >> As far as I can tell the initramfs filesystem is not restricted in size. >> You can keep writing files until it uses all available memory. > > Yup. There have intermittently been patches to make rootfs be tmpfs instead > of ramfs, the most recent of which I remember was: > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/13/354 it wouldnt matter. tmpfs on NOMMU doesnt support any of the options like MMU. look at mm/tiny-shmem.c and init/Kconfig. -mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
