From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: Prakash kanthi <pkanthi@yahoo.com>
Cc: LinuxPPC <linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: Smallest Initrd (ram disk)
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 01:22:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021227002244.B4C9FC6139@atlas.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Dec 2002 14:47:30 PST." <20021226224730.21626.qmail@web41210.mail.yahoo.com>
In message <20021226224730.21626.qmail@web41210.mail.yahoo.com> you wrote:
>
> If i want to build a smallest possible initrd, can you
The smallest possible ramdisk would probably contain just the
/dev/directory with an entry for /dev/console, and a statically
linked application program by the name of /sbin/init or so.
> suggest where i can get it from or how i can build it?
See Documentation/initrd.txt that comes with your Linux kernel
sources.
> I am working with a custom made PPC405 based board
> with just 8MB RAM.
8 MB is a lot. You can run pretty complex systems there - for
example, the default ramdisk size for the SELF package is 4 MB, about
half of which is unused. See the ELF package as included with our
ELDK, or see ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/LinuxPPC/usr/src/SELF/ for am
older (and smaller) version.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd@denx.de
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-27 0:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-19 16:10 After Uncompresseing Linux..., what's next James Don
2002-12-19 16:39 ` Tom Rini
2002-12-20 16:14 ` Prakash kanthi
2002-12-20 16:32 ` Prakash kanthi
2002-12-20 16:49 ` Jim Potter
2002-12-20 17:02 ` Jim Potter
2002-12-20 16:38 ` Gary Thomas
2002-12-20 16:48 ` Prakash kanthi
2002-12-20 16:52 ` Gary Thomas
2002-12-20 17:06 ` Prakash kanthi
2002-12-20 17:22 ` Gary Thomas
2002-12-20 21:59 ` Serious Problem: " Prakash kanthi
2002-12-20 16:47 ` Jim Potter
2002-12-26 22:47 ` Smallest Initrd (ram disk) Prakash kanthi
2002-12-26 22:55 ` Jim Potter
2003-01-13 2:15 ` Prakash kanthi
2003-01-13 7:55 ` Wolfgang Denk
2003-01-14 18:42 ` ramdisk mount problem Prakash kanthi
2003-01-14 18:57 ` Wolfgang Denk
2003-01-15 8:33 ` Frederic Soulier
2003-01-16 4:49 ` Ramdisk details; execve("/bin/sh") output Prakash kanthi
2003-01-16 5:57 ` Hi Anish
2003-01-16 8:00 ` Hi Wolfgang Denk
2003-01-16 8:06 ` Ramdisk details; execve("/bin/sh") output Wolfgang Denk
2002-12-27 0:22 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
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