Question about making ramdisk for ppc

Graham Stoney greyham at research.canon.com.au
Tue Mar 6 09:49:51 EST 2001


On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 07:20:47PM +0900, kingseft at samsung.co.kr wrote:
>  Our linux host system's CPU is Intel and I'd like to make a ramdisk for ppc
>  of course, I think the directories of linux host system are not suitable
> for ppc ramdisk..

There are numerous options here.  Of course you need to cross-compile all
the libraries and binaries, and you need to pick a filesystem that is endian
independent, (like ext2, unlike minix for example).  For more info on actually
building the ramdisk image, see the section in the HOWTO at:
http://penguinppc.org/usr/embedded/howto/PowerPC-Embedded-HOWTO-13.html#ss13.2

Regards,
Graham

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