On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 08:38:08PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 08:37:37PM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: > > > I would do 1+3 - Give the address on the command line and let the ramdisk > > > have a magic + length in the first 2 __u32. > > I implemented (1) only since the kernel checks for a proper fs/gzip > > magic anyway. I added this to the kernels at: > > Ok ... > > > http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/linux-mips/kernels/ > > Patch is at: > > http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/linux-mips/kernel-patches/ramdisk-cmdline-2002-05-09.diff > > I looked at the patch and it seems it does support all sub-archs - Is that > correct ? It doesn't refer to any subarchitecture specific details so it can be used by any subarch, yes. > > BTW: When we boot with tip we might also compress the kernel as gzip. That's also on my todo list for arcboot/tip22 but I'd like to get bootfloppies fixed first. -- Guido
