[Fwd: [PATCH] PPC64: large INITRD causes kernel not to boot]

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Aug 23 05:01:35 EST 2005


> I guess that doesnt help the maple board with their PIBS 1.05 firmware.
> I got 0x00aa7688 bytes for uncompressed kernel @ 0x00b00000,
> which was used for the nvram msg_area (NVRAM_MAGIC did not match
> anymore).
> It seems SLOF isnt any better...

Hey, I told you that in private, no need to spout it on the
mailing list.

Also, our memory map (esp. the new memory map) leaves almost
all "low" memory to whoever wants to use it, so much less
chance of collisions, even with broken clients (like Linux
seems to be).


Segher




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