[Buildroot] [PATCHv2] beaglebone: add BeagleBone Black support
Peter Korsgaard
jacmet at uclibc.org
Fri Oct 4 15:40:40 UTC 2013
>>>>> "Jason" == Kridner, Jason <jdk at ti.com> writes:
Hi,
>> I don't seem to have received the original here (probably because of my
>> mail problems), but what's the reason for the ext2 -> initramfs changes?
Jason> Just enabling rapid testing. This can boot off of a FAT
Jason> formatted SD card, over USB, over serial or over Ethernet
Jason> without passing a separate ramdisk. The ext2 required a separate
Jason> download or special formatting of the card and wasted memory if
Jason> used as a ramdisk. Nothing too special here, but it simplifies
Jason> use as a recovery system, validation system or bootloader.
Ok.
Jason> I will keep it however you'd like. The important part is the kernel.
I would like to keep it with ext2 just to keep it similar to the other
defconfigs. Then we also don't need to carry the u-boot patch.
Care to send a v3? Thanks.
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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