netdev - Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver

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Date:	Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:30:13 -0400
From:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
To:	Christer Weinigel <christer@...nigel.se>
Cc:	Jamie Lokier <jamie@...reable.org>, davem@...emloft.net,
	shemminger@...tta.com, s.hauer@...gutronix.de, yanok@...raft.com,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	wd@...x.de, dzu@...x.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dnet: Dave DNET ethernet controller driver

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 02:29:58AM +0100, Christer Weinigel wrote:
> Neil Horman wrote:
>
>> So, I've avoided asking this question, because I didn't want to get off topic,
>> but since it appears we're winding up here, I have to ask what your long term
>> plan is for your final application.  I can understand being hesitant to invest
>> in an initramfs when its solely for your intermediate development (even though I
>> think that will pay off for you in the long run), but when your development
>> ends, and you ship a product, how do you plan to implement your application?  I
>> would imagine you at least need an initramfs to store, load and run your final
>> application don't you?  How do you plan on executing it?
>
> Most probably no ramdisk at all, just the mtd driver and flash file  
> system driver compiled into the kernel and then "root=/dev/mtdblock4".
>
Ok, thanks, so you have a place to store user space images.  This thread got me
wondering what you were going to do long term about user space.  I was starting
to think as a space saving measure, that you were building your app into the
kernel or something.

FWIW, I think Uboot has a pretty robust mtd infrastructure that would allow you
to store a initramfs image there for use if you were interested in exploring
that route.

Neil

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