Dan, the lack of RAMDISK support is still on Alan/Linus's "must do" list before 2.3.x can become 2.4.x. That would seem to imply that the necessary work has not been done.
a On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Dan Malek wrote: > Robin O'Leary wrote: > > > > .... Although I have now > > coaxed 2.3.18 as far as trying to load the initrd, it has been an uphill > > struggle all the way and I still haven't got the compressed bootloader > > going properly. Could it be that my problems stem from using 2.3.18? > > > As I recall, the ram disk didn't work in 2.3.18. There are some > general things that don't work in 2.3.18, so I bailed out and > updated 2.2.xx to get something stable. Since 2.3.xx is now > in it's mid-30's (still younger than I :-), perhaps it is mature > enough that I should visit again and make sure the 8xx configuration > continues to work. > > > -- Dan -- Alan Mimms Packet Engines, Inc. Spokane, Washington [99214-0497] USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way, The Local Group, Virgo Supercluster, U0 Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how popular it remains? -- Steven Wright? ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
