[initrd] Takaaki's initrd for Gingerbread - NOT A BUILD

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I'm leaving this here for you guys to test, don't spam the thread with thanks,IF you don't know what you're doing don't bother. report any problems you find so we can make this as perfect as possible.

IF I READ MORE COMMENTS ABOUT RAM I'LL TAKE THIS OFFLINE AND ASK A MOD TO DELETE THIS THREAD. The purpose for this is NOT to enable RAM on a gingerbread build, is to use the new initrd that gives you more I/O therefore making the build faster. This is a dev thread if i wanted random comments or spam thanks, i would have posted this in general. If you wanna say thanks, use the button.

I will release my own gingerbread build in time, so far i just packed this to work with "any" gingerbread build available. Don't credit me, all the coding was done by Darkstone and Takaaki (HD2ONE chef) i just took it and made it work on gb.
This was done with a fresh install, if you wanna try with your current setup, i won't take any responsibility if anything happens.

Steps:
1 - Delete initrd.gz rootfs.img
2 - extract the contents of the 7z into Android folder

since this initrd is the same as Takaaki, it can be used to create a new data.img with the size you want, enabling ram or not. I won't discuss if you should use RAM or not, i advise against it at this point of development.

Also, i'll include the startup.txt, use it if you want

THIS BREAKS ROOT. Working on it

already testing!

PING^^^

first? will try thanks

Bom dia,

Good morning,


Can we use this, to run gingerbread in RAM, if yes how can we do it?


Thanks.


Bom Natal.

Originally Posted by pack21

Bom dia,

Good morning,

Can we use this, to run gingerbread in RAM, if yes how can we do it?

Thanks.

Bom Natal.

bom dia

yes we can. the info is in the startup.txt, all you need is rel_path=Android ram_system=1

bom natal!

So what are the benefits of switching to this initrd? Apart from the ability to use the RAM mod?

Originally Posted by the_scotsman

So what are the benefits of switching to this initrd? Apart from the ability to use the RAM mod?

faster I/O resulting in a faster build.

Testing

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Ok, took:
[23.12.10][BUILD] -=MDJ Gingerbread=- v. 1.0 RC [2.3.1 / GRH78] [Kernel: MDJ S8.0]

Used a 256 ram image.
Deleted the inird
Did an edit of the startup file whick looks like this:

set mtype 2524
set ramaddr 0x11800000
set ramsize 0x1e400000
set initrd_offset 0x00a00000
set KERNEL zImage
set initrd initrd.gz
set cmdline "rel_path=Test lcd-density 200 ram_system=1"
boot

And it's working!
Going to test the setup now further for any system hickups.

Thank you!

Originally Posted by crawlingcity

faster I/O resulting in a faster build.

Ahh right, well I'll give it a try then. Don't want to use RAM mod just now though.

Thanks

Originally Posted by the_scotsman

Ahh right, well I'll give it a try then. Don't want to use RAM mod just now though.

Thanks

thats an option, it's written in there..