From: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev <Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: Okay to change default zImage link/load address?
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:35:31 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070209223531.GA7339@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1171048464.4884.230.camel@zod.rchland.ibm.com>
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 01:14:22PM -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 11:55 -0700, Mark A. Greer wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 07:51:07PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 09, Mark A. Greer wrote:
> > >
> > > > Does anyone know of a problem downloading to 8MB instead of 4MB in
> > > > arch/powerpc? If not, would you object if it changed to 8MB?
> > >
> > > IBM chrp 32 and 64bit has a free and usable memory range from 64k to
> > > 12M.
> > > Changing the link address from 4 to 8 MB will reduce the max zImage size
> > > to 3MB on these systems.
> >
> > Hmm, not good.
> >
> > Paul, may we may this configurable (i.e., a CONFIG option)?
>
> Something like that is going to be needed for 4xx anyway.
Uh.. don't think so. I'm booting fine on 440, loading the zImage at
4MB.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-09 22:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-09 18:43 Okay to change default zImage link/load address? Mark A. Greer
2007-02-09 18:51 ` Olaf Hering
2007-02-09 18:55 ` Mark A. Greer
2007-02-09 19:14 ` Josh Boyer
2007-02-09 22:35 ` David Gibson [this message]
2007-02-10 1:27 ` Josh Boyer
2007-02-09 19:34 ` Geoff Levand
2007-02-09 22:40 ` David Gibson
2007-02-09 23:05 ` Geoff Levand
2007-02-09 23:21 ` Mark A. Greer
2007-02-09 23:25 ` Mark A. Greer
2007-02-10 0:53 ` David Gibson
2007-02-12 19:18 ` Mark A. Greer
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