Re: LinuxBIOS and self-contained RAMDISK. Possible?

[Nikolai Vladychevski]

Nikolai Vladychevski writes: 

> Ronald G Minnich writes:  
> 
>> On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Nikolai Vladychevski wrote:  
>> 
>>> I think the way we should do it is incorporate code to kernel that 
>>> accesses
>>> the DoC via MTD drivers (that are compiled into) and decompresses the
>>> ramdisk image that resides just after the kernel on DoC into Ram and 
>>> mount
>>> it as root ....
>> 
>> we do this several ways. One is to mount an MTD partition as /, the other
>> is to have Eric's elfboot stuff load the ramdisk and kernel into ram and
>> then have the kernel mount the ramdisk.  
>> 
>> 
>> I have not tried using the mtd block device to get at the compressed
>> ramdisk image. This should be easy.
> 
> yes, the kernel has everything you need to do this..... but if you use 
> Eric's elfboot stuff, how much space you wold lose of the DoC's 8 MB?  
> 
 

I just seen the redhat's initrd uses 285K Bytes of code .....I hope using 
mtdblock would avoid losing this gold priced space.....