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As per my comment in pull request #1 , the current 4.40 version of rk30xxnand.ko just causes a kernel freeze when booting.

Rolling back to 3.38 allows normal booting behaviour.

This is the output printed after "insmod rk30xxnand-3.0.36+.ko":

[  235.233596] gp_rknand_info = : 0xeb973200
[  235.240083] rk30_chip_set:1 
[  235.242887] FtlInit!
[  235.245439] No.1 FLASH ID:2c 64 44 4b a9 0
[  235.249097] FTL version: 5.0.8 20131204

The kernel seems to be semi-active still -- it will notice USB connects and disconnects and I can use the magic sysrq key. However the insmod command just hangs and never returns to the console.

The default boot partition is quite small - often just 16MB.

The initrd can be compressed, which easily halves the size with gzip, or goes even smaller with other compression methods.

Many people probably don't realise this, and are likely to accidentally create too-large initrds. As such, the Makefile should add a "gzip initrd.img" for an easy win.

(I've tested this myself, and just booted a Rock using a compressed initrd)