Ramdisk images for test

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Mon Dec 19 23:39:33 EST 2005


In message <000501c6046b$f1abd5a0$0760120a at photon> you wrote:
>
>   I followed setion 7.6 of DULG and found got two Ramdisk images
> for test for ppc_82xx. One is pRamdisk, another is ramdisk_image.gz.
>   Who can tell what the difference is between them ?

The former is a U-Boot/PPCBoot image, the later one a raw  compressed
ramdisk image. They contain the same data, just packaged differently.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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