Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755037AbZFWGkh (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:40:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751670AbZFWGk1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:40:27 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f224.google.com ([209.85.220.224]:48447 "EHLO mail-fx0-f224.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751270AbZFWGkY convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:40:24 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=bpDQQkIlYHeHa1p4qrQQaWkAHmfkFN6GElG7VA9dhCkjUWld1pb0WbiCePVIYjc16F lrZKqVftn9iG/kWwcY7N7ynLfCJkmm3TshUZf+ip/t+KA+yjBZgtbjto3HuEtLQ60234 2KrAhZL6hO6omnrgl3qrF3VCak3skZghE0fZE= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200906222033.20883.arnd@arndb.de> References: <4A33A7EC.6070008@gmail.com> <200906221317.04166.arnd@arndb.de> <4A3FC7F1.5050108@gmail.com> <200906222033.20883.arnd@arndb.de> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:40:25 +0200 Message-ID: <2ea1731b0906222340o13e9cf0fu7e15cddadf27bbbb@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/14] Pramfs: Include files From: Marco Stornelli To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Sam Ravnborg , Linux FS Devel , Linux Embedded , Linux Kernel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1108 Lines: 27 2009/6/22 Arnd Bergmann : > On Monday 22 June 2009, Marco wrote: >> >> Sorry, I meant it's not currently possible. At the moment the only way >> to use it as rootfs it's to copy all the data in an already mounted >> (empty) ram partition and reboot. However it's not my first item on my >> todo list because I think that it's possible to use it as rootfs but it >> isn't the standard use for this fs. > > Well, it doesn't have to work right away. What I'm asking to > define the data structures in a way that keeps the layout stable > across kernel updates. Since a future version of the file system > might support cross-endian image creation, it would be good to > define the data structures in a fixed endian mode already, so > you don't have to change it in the future. > > ? ? ? ?Arnd <>< > I was refering to create a tool "mkpramfs". Marco -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/