hi, i m working on porting the 2.6.14.6 linux kernel to the encore m3 board with the au1500 processor -- nfs is giving me errors (Kernel not syncing -- Attempted to kill init) so i m trying to build an initrd image -- according to this document: http://www.timesys.com/timesource/initramfs.htm I built my own initramfs_data.cpio.gz file that contains the object file for the hello world code below- printkf("Hello World\n"); sleep(99999999); return(0) As part of make menuconfig, I pointed the CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE to the loaction of this cpio.gz archive (which was abt 24MB) -- however, this resulted in a Huge kernel image (174MB! -- i only have 64MB available on this board) making it impossible to load the image onto the board. then, I copied this initramfs_data.cpio.gz file into the linux/usr/ directory and build the kernel, leaving the CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE path blank -- the size of the kernel build was back to normal what boot args should I now supply to the board? i tried giving root=/dev/ram0 rw ip=the usual and init=hello, but this does not work..(as expected) as i understand it, when the kernel is built with a non empty initramfs_data.cpio.gz archive, it extracts the filesystem (in this case init/hello) and mounts it as part of the rootfs... Also, I m not sure how to enable support for initrd into my kernel, cus there doesnt seem to be an option in the make menuconfig to that effect?! -- but i m guessing it must be configured as i see the CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE -- Could someone please point me to the right direction and also tell me if what I m thinking is on the right/wrong track? Thank you! Ashlesha.
