MVME5100 and bugboot fails
Tom Rini
trini at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Sep 7 03:48:30 EST 2001
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 07:03:58AM -0700, Matt Porter wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 08:56:39AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 11:36:39AM -0400, Brian Waite wrote:
> >
> > > I tried that and I was unable to relocate just the initrd. Right now, I just
> > > tested to see:
> > > if ((zImage_start >= 0xf0000000) || (zImage_start <= 0x00800000))
> > >
> > > That seems to work for now, but I'll take a peek at the gemeni and see how
> > > they do it.
> >
> > Er, after re-reading, it's wrong too. I'll send you a patch
> > privately, if you can test it.
>
> This location checking logic is all a hack...I've already stared at this
> a while to make it work for someone. I recommend we _always_ relocate
> both zImage and initrd (if present).
Right, but if the initrd happens to start off at below the 16 mb barrier,
why do it? For example anyhow, my PowerStack doesn't need to relocate the
zimage (and if I can make it happily netboot, I'll test initrd, but that
might need it..)
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