Okay to change default zImage link/load address?

Olaf Hering olaf at aepfle.de
Sat Feb 10 05:51:07 EST 2007


On Fri, Feb 09, Mark A. Greer wrote:

> Does anyone know of a problem downloading to 8MB instead of 4MB in
> arch/powerpc?  If not, would you object if it changed to 8MB?

IBM chrp 32 and 64bit has a free and usable memory range from 64k to
12M.
Changing the link address from 4 to 8 MB will reduce the max zImage size
to 3MB on these systems.



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