Re: [microblaze-uclinux] Is MTD necessary?

["David H. Lynch Jr." <dhlii@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Claudio Lanconelli wrote:
> Lancer Evo wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I have a doubt: if my platform hasn't flash memory, but only ram
>> memory, do I need to enable MTD support under uClinux (and equally
>> PetaLinux)?
> Yes, you still need MTD for romfs and ram mapping.
> Cheers,
> Claudio Lanconelli
    I have not done this with a MicroBlaze, but I do not believe as a
broad generalization that
    romfs is required. On the ppc, I load a single file which is a Linux
kernel and a compressed initramfs
    image combined. Linux extracts the intramfs to a ramfs. This is a
2.6 specific solution.
    It has some resemblance to initrd, but is actually simpler -  though
less well documented.

    It is possible that the current PetaLogix/uClinux norms require
romfs and mtd.

    Separately, the platform ram mtd driver is fairly minimal and trivial.

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