* Rajat Jain wrote: > Hi, > > I am experimenting with initrd and my initrd fails to mount. My > bootloader (U-BOOT) coorectly loads the initrd into RAM as I can see. > > I am wondering how does the kernel get to know the address at which > the initrd is loaded by boot loader? How does the boot loader > communicate this to the kernel? > > Any code references will be appreciated. Perhaps lib_mips/mips_linux.c in the U-Boot tree is what you are looking for. That code sets up environment parameters that are parsed by the Linux kernel later on (see rd_start_early() and friends in arch/mips/kernel/setup.c in the Linux tree). Hope that helps, Thierry > Thanks, > > Rajat > > PS: I am not using initramfs (emebedding root filesystem into kernel image).
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