Viable PPC platform?

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <20060509171520.GA10886 at gate.ebshome.net> you wrote:
>
> 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.

Agreed.

And if somebody wants to see facts and numbers, please see
http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/RootFileSystemSelection

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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