Loading Cpio (gz) image as rootfs

[Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD]

On 14:21 Mon 04 Jun     , Benoit RAT 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 at 0x71000000(kernel);
>    tftp zImage /dev/mem.kernel
>    addpart /dev/mem  32M at 0x72000000(fs)
>    tftp image.cpio.gz /dev/mem.fs 
>    bootargs="$bootargs root=/dev/ram0 initrd=0x72000000"
>    bootz /dev/mem.kernel
btw do not use bootz but bootm

if you want to use a zimage and cpio.gz directly you needt to use -r option

Best Regards,
J.
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