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From: Benoit RAT <benoit@sevensols.com>
To: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Loading Cpio (gz) image as rootfs
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 15:07:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHvDM_eLd8aJjtXHVjU7StvEeit2QTHAdaVW2DOG4WbW2+=w=A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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Sorry to bother again but I found the solution. maybe it can help someone:

initrd need start and size parameters.
As, size can be bigger then real size of image.cpio.gz, I set it to 32M
like the addpart command.

bootargs="$bootargs initrd=0x72000000,33554432"

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On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Benoit RAT <benoit@sevensols.com> wrote:

> Hy everybody,
>
> I was wondering if it was possible to load a cpio.gz image as rootfs! (I
> think it is the kernel that load it so it should not be a problem)
> however I don't know how to pass the arguments.
>
> Here you can find the commands, that i am using:
>
> addpart /dev/mem  8M@0x71000000(kernel);
> tftp zImage /dev/mem.kernel
> addpart /dev/mem  32M@0x72000000(fs)
> tftp image.cpio.gz /dev/mem.fs
> bootargs="$bootargs root=/dev/ram0 initrd=0x72000000"
> bootz /dev/mem.kernel
>
> Regards,
>
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> *Benoit RAT LAMY*
>
> Engineer (Sw) \ Ingeniero (Sw)
>
> fix. *(+34) 958 285 024*
>
> cel. *(+34) 617 989 123*
>
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>
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>
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>
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-04 12:21 Benoit RAT
2012-06-04 13:07 ` Benoit RAT [this message]
2012-06-05  2:59 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD

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