Hi!
> > This patch should load initrd over serial line. On r38xx it works for
> > me, but kernel crashes after that and I do not know who to blame. It
> > needs some ifdefs and it needs making some functions public...
>
> > You'll need program that looks for 'X' and sends block of data to use
> > this.
>
> Cute, if somewhat sick.
>
> It'd be far nicer to use ramfs, though. What I'd like to do is compile a
> statically-linked combination of tar(1) and rz(1), which will untar the
> tarball it receives into a fresh ramfs.
>
> Q: If you don't have initrd, where do you put this binary?
>
> A: In the kernel. Provide it with a set of pages which are to be put into
> the user-space side of process #1, rather then exec'ing /sbin/init.
Actually, on MIPS r39xx initrd is linked to kernel, so I'd simply put
tar+rz into initrd which is linked to kernel. I thought about that
solution, and it would probably would work, but tar+rz can be pretty
big, and I was trying to minimize size. (Everything needs to be
uploaded over serial line -> size==speed).
Pavel
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