6 MB limit of initrd

Paul Nasrat pnasrat at googlemail.com
Wed Feb 6 01:39:02 EST 2008


On 5 Feb 2008, at 14:29, Scott Moser wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Paul Nasrat wrote:
>
>>
>> On 5 Feb 2008, at 14:00, Scott Moser wrote:
>>>
>>> Please try building with commit  
>>> c8b04c614770870d75825c19bcd4729cc779b84a
>>> backed out (ie: git-checkout -f; git-show c8b04c61 | patch -p1 - 
>>> R ; make
>>> clean ; make
>>>
>>> I have a colleague who was having a similar problem on a power5 lpar
>>> system with firmware at SF240_332 .  Doing the above fixed the  
>>> problem.
>>> He's now able to netboot 6MB+ kernels.
>>
>> Can you printenv load-base for me from OF on that firmware, and  
>> maybe capture
>> a yaboot built with DEBUG=1 output from the vterm.
>
> Don't have the system that I can get to, but debug build log of both
> yaboot-git-head and the listed change backed out are attached.  They
> both show:
>  load-base=0x4000
>  real-base=0x2000000

And do you have a box which works with Leo's patch we can compare it's  
load-base and real-base with?

Paul




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