Re: [Ipodlinux-devel] linux on the new ipods...

[Bernard L. <le...@bo...>]

Hi Bruce,

Before I had IDE up and running I used a initrd to get things going.  It
was a long time ago and it was a bit temperamental then so I imagine the
bit-rot hasnt helped.

Anyhow if you take a look at head-arm-ipod.S, at the end there is an
.incbin that I used to include the initrd into the binary.  If you poke
around for for the CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM you should find some other parts
which need to be modified as well.

As for building an initrd I used the full uclinux distree and it builds
one ready to go...

cheers,
bern.

On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 23:58, Noone wrote:
> Hi all,
>  
> I've been playing around with the ipods and it boot as far as trying
> to mount the rootfs as mentioned earlier in the list.  I was wondering
> if anyone has tried building a kernel with a builtin initrd?  This
> would help a lot in debugging the type of problems being seen on the
> newer pods.  If anyone has any idea how to do this can you drop me a
> line?
>  
> Cheers,
> Bruce
> noo...@ho...
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