From 63dd4c5d6fceac411888ab8ddfa281039e193585 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ciro=20Santilli=20=E5=85=AD=E5=9B=9B=E4=BA=8B=E4=BB=B6=20?= =?UTF-8?q?=E6=B3=95=E8=BD=AE=E5=8A=9F?= Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] gem5 initramfs --- README.adoc | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc index c1c0054..652a2d0 100644 --- a/README.adoc +++ b/README.adoc @@ -2719,6 +2719,10 @@ http://nairobi-embedded.org/initramfs_tutorial.html shows a full manual setup. TODO we were not able to get it working yet: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49261801/how-to-boot-the-linux-kernel-with-initrd-or-initramfs-with-gem5 +This would require gem5 to load the CPIO into memory, just like QEMU, which it does not seem to support. It should not be hard to implement however. + +initramfs might just work however, TODO test it out. + == Device tree The device tree is a Linux kernel defined data structure that serves to inform the kernel how the hardware is setup.