[PATCH] KERNELADDR and LOAD_BUFFER_POS shift

Paul Nasrat pnasrat at googlemail.com
Tue Dec 4 01:19:37 EST 2007


On 08/11/2007, Leonardo Rangel <lrangel at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> last month we discussed about defining both KERNELADDR and
> LOAD_BUFFER_POS with
> 0x0 address and let prom_claim_chunk dinamically look for a free memory
> chunck for TFTP buffer, kernel and initrd
> (http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/yaboot-devel/2007-October/000187.html)
>
> This way, I was able to load big kernels/initrds and also zImages.initrd
> (ie: rhel5 installation zImage - ppc64.img, which has 7.7MB).
>
> Here is a patch for it. It was built over HEAD + the following patches:
>
> http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/yaboot-devel/2007-October/000174.html
> (Scott Moser)
> http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/yaboot-devel/2007-October/000176.html
> (Scott Moser)
> http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/yaboot-devel/2007-October/000177.html
> (Paulo Vital)

These are now commited on git HEAD

I'm still working my way through my backlog of patches but hopefully
will get 1.3.15rc1 mid next week.

Paul



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