initrd allocation

[Nathan Lynch]

Nathan Lynch wrote:
> Paul Nasrat wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 22:54 -0600, Nathan Lynch wrote:
> > > 1) Is there some historical reason for INITRD_CHUNKSIZE to be as large
> > >    as it is?  I have worked around the issue by defining it to
> > >    0x100000.
> > 
> > I'm not sure of hand. Sadly the archives are not available.  Could you
> > summarise your testing with this change, and perhaps we can test on a
> > few more platforms.
> 
> So far just JS21 and a Power3 44P-270 (and only booting from cd).  I
> can get it more testing on IBM stuff.

Have tested on JS20 (cdrom) and Power5 LPAR (cdrom and hard disk), no
problems.  Going to try to find a Power4 to check, too.