ramdisk size is larger than 4MB
Shawn Jin
shawnxjin at gmail.com
Mon Aug 2 16:34:39 EST 2010
>> It should be fine to just change it locally. It would be a problem to
>> change it upstream for all boards, since some supported boards have
>> only 16MB (or even 8MB) of RAM.
>
> I'll definitely try to change it locally first. Would a configurable
> base address for the bootwrapper an acceptable solution?
I found the link_address in the wrapper shell script sets the _start
address. But after changing it to 0x800000, the kernel failed to boot,
shown below. There must be something also needs proper adjustment.
What would that be?
=> bootm 4000000
## Booting image at 04000000 ...
Image Name: Linux-2.6.33.5
Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
Data Size: 1757356 Bytes = 1.7 MB
Load Address: 00800000
Entry Point: 00800554
Verifying Checksum ... OK
Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
Memory <- <0x0 0x8000000> (128MB)
ENET0: local-mac-address <- 00:09:9b:01:58:64
CPU clock-frequency <- 0x7270e00 (120MHz)
CPU timebase-frequency <- 0x7270e0 (8MHz)
CPU bus-frequency <- 0x3938700 (60MHz)
zImage starting: loaded at 0x00800000 (sp: 0x07d1cbd0)
Allocating 0x3a15a4 bytes for kernel ...
gunzipping (0x00000000 <- 0x0080c000:0x00bd702c)...done 0x3886ec bytes
Linux/PowerPC load: root=/dev/ram
Finalizing device tree... flat tree at 0xbe4300
Thanks a lot,
-Shawn.
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