Okay to change default zImage link/load address?

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Sat Feb 10 06:14:22 EST 2007


On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 11:55 -0700, Mark A. Greer wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 07:51:07PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Hmm, not good.
> 
> Paul, may we may this configurable (i.e., a CONFIG option)?

Something like that is going to be needed for 4xx anyway.

josh




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