More walnut boottime "fun"

Tom Rini trini at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Nov 28 02:41:42 EST 2001


On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 05:07:54AM -0700, Matt Porter wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 10:17:28PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 10:30:42AM +1100, Simon Winwood wrote:
> >
> > > 	Apart from NFS not working, it looks like the bootloader is
> > > clobbering itself when the image is reasonably large (> 1M?).
> >
> > There's certain dead-zones now.  Check out
>
> Deadzone. Singular.
>
> > arch/ppc/boot/common/relocate.S for the constraints.  Tomorrow I plan on
> > implementing a slightly smarter relocate that moves the text, jumps
> > there and then relocates data, which should bring us back to the same
> > size deadzones that the original code had.
>
> I don't think you understand what happened.

After sleeping on it I was confusing myself with a different problem...

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