On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > -- Right, I still got one bug related to tmpfs/ramfs on NOMMU. That is the fcntl/cease problem. Some LTP testcases still fail because of this. -Bryan -- 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
