That sounds promising. I don't really have a need to customize Linux. My
design just simply needs to fire up my app as quickly as possible even if it
wasn't gracefully shut down which is why I want to avoid EXT2 file systems.
What boot times are you seeing with this setup?
--- In "bsmuck2000" <> wrote:
>
> It is possible. We are using a nand-based fastboot system for the 7260.
> Jesse Off at Technologics did some custom work for us to allow the 7260 to
> boot from an initrd and kernel saved to nand.
>
> We use a special version of ts-bootromupdate (sp??) to load the fastboot
> bootloader code into the e2prom.
>
> This process is not reversible, and mistakes during the process can easily
> brick a unit. (We have an "unbrick" expect script which uses serialblaster,
> which we have used many times.)
>
> So right now we use a 7260 with fastboot nand configuration, load a 2.6 eabi
> kernel and we're good to go. I don't recommend it to everyone, but it works
> really well for us.
>
> Brian
>
> --- In "bburtan65" <bburtan65@> wrote:
> >
> > Is it possible to set up a 7260 for fast boot from the onboard flash
> > memory? If not, why not?
> >
>
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