Tim,

Maybe initrd and linuxrc is enough for your system. Read the file
initrd.txt in the Linux source tree Documentation sub-directory.

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Friday, June 21, 2002, 4:35:17 PM, you wrote:


TL> Thanks, Jason.
TL> I am new to linux kernel. I'll have the main
TL> application run from init(), so I wasn't planning
TL> to have a file system.

quoted

Yes. You will always have SOME kind of filesystem.
But this begs another
question. How much do you know about Linux, and what
are you really asking?

TL> If /proc and /dev is not really on any disk, what do
TL> I have to do to init or create /dev? Do I need ramdisk
TL> as a minumum requirement for linux?
TL> My main goal right now is to get the serial port
TL> to work, so I can do some debugging with the dumb
TL> terminal. After I do tty_register() in the serial
TL> driver, does linux assign /dev/ttyS to this device?

quoted

The /proc filesystem is not really on any disk, just
like /dev (I think)
isn't on any disk, though they look like to us users
that they are
filesystems.

TL> Can you give me pointers on which file to read?

quoted

Does this help?

TL> Yes. Thank you very much. :)

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