[PATCH 15/19] ppc64: Move iSeries initrd logic into device tree

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Jul 27 01:58:30 EST 2005


On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 18:58 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:

> +	/* XXX This came from iSeries code, make sure ram disk is big enough */
> +	if ((rd_size * 1024) < (initrd_end - initrd_start))
> +		rd_size = (initrd_end - initrd_start) / 1024;
> +

Will probably not work in practice. initrd is compressed at this point,
but the rd_size is the uncompressed max size. Also, we can use
initrd_start to pass an initramfs, in which case rd_size is irrelevant.

I'd say just ditch it.

Ben.





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