[RFC PATCH] ARM: exynos_defconfig: Increase CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE to 64K

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Mon Oct 19 06:22:54 PDT 2015


On Monday 19 October 2015 16:18:35 Alim Akhtar wrote:
> Spam Status: CRM114    
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE is currently set to 8K, which is a bit on the
> smaller side, lets bump it up to 64K so that a bigger RAM_DISK can
> be used with defconfig.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alim Akhtar <alim.akhtar at samsung.com>
> ---
> Every time I build exynos_defconfig, I need to manually change RAM_SIZE
> to match my ramdisk image size. I am not sure what is the best ramdisk size
> might be, but bumping it to 64K might be a reasonable one.

Is there still a reason to use ramdisks these days? If 8MB is not
enough to have a useful initrd, that might mean that everyone else
uses initramfs and you should just do the same thing?

Then we can also remove this option here.

	Arnd



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