On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 08:37:37PM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote:

quoted

I would do 1+3 - Give the address on the command line and let the ramdisk
have a magic + length in the first 2 __u32.

I implemented (1) only since the kernel checks for a proper fs/gzip
magic anyway. I added this to the kernels at:

Ok ...

 http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/linux-mips/kernels/
Patch is at:
 http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/linux-mips/kernel-patches/ramdisk-cmdline-2002-05-09.diff

I looked at the patch and it seems it does support all sub-archs - Is that
correct ?

BTW: When we boot with tip we might also compress the kernel as gzip.

Flo
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