Viable PPC platform?

[Eugene Surovegin]

On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 05:41:01PM +0100, Alex Zeffertt wrote:
> On Tue, 09 May 2006 10:38:19 -0400
> geneSmith <gd.smth at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I have a ppc405gpr system with 64M ram and 4Meg flash in a
> > AM29LV320. Is this a viable platform for linux? Can a filesystem
> > (JFFS2?) be put this flash type?
> > 
> 
> I would create an initrd and put every file that doesn't need
> to be changed persistently into it instead of JFFS2.

After many years of doing embedded Linux stuff I still don't 
understand why people are so fond of initrd.

For temporary stuff - tempfs is much better and flexible. For r/o 
stuff - just make separate MTD partition (cramfs, squashfs) and mount 
it directly as root. Both options will waste significantly less 
memory.

-- 
Eugene