Large initrd and arch/ppc/boot/simple Question

[Tom Rini]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 04:29:44PM -0400, Kent Borg wrote:

> We are booting our kernel via the arch/ppc/boot/simple mechanism to
> package up our kernel and initrd.  It seems to work, until we get too
> big.  What is big?  Roughly 8 MB for our one big uncompressed userland
> program, plus the kernel, bash, busybox, and various userland
> utilities.
>
> Can initrd's get that large and still work?  Is the simple boot code
> sensible with these sizes?  (I notice that the "avail ram" message
> that gets printed is just hard coded number...)

After reading the follow ups, is the problem that the kernel never boots
if you pass too large of a ramdisk or that the app does not work?

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Tom Rini
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