Hello All,
I have a bootloader that that is reading segments out of flash and into
memory. The segments are 3 compressed ext2 filesystems and the linux
kernel. After a signature check of each of the sections in memory the
bootloader jumps to the kernel.
I would like to mount one filesystem section in RAM as the root
filesystem. I think it's easy enough to specify initrd as the offset
and size of the section in RAM. But I would also like to mount the
remaining two filesystems in RAM when linux starts up. This is where
I'm having some trouble. I have two questions:
1. Is there some way to protect the memory regions in RAM from linux
just trashing it? I saw a function add_memory_region in
arch/mips/kernel/setup.c that seems to do something, does anyone know
what exactly this does?
2. How do you mount an area of memory that you know has a filesystem
already there under linux? Is there some mount command where you can
pass the address and size, and mount does the right thing?
Thank you in advance,
Drew Frezell
