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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] image: Don't relocate ramdisk to highmem
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 22:55:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130711205505.6F07E383003@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51DF024C.2080102@wwwdotorg.org>

Dear Stephen Warren,

In message <51DF024C.2080102@wwwdotorg.org> you wrote:
>
> > This depends a lot on a number of things.  For example, you should be
> > able to use a ramdisk in NOR flash directly, i. e. without loading it
> > to RAM first - especially if it;s a comprtessed ramdis image, and the
> > Kernel will copy/uncompress it anyway.
> 
> That would be nice, but I don't believe the kernel supports that (at
> least not on ARM):

You are right. RMK repeatedly rejected patches to allow this; but it
has always been available on other architectures, like PPC.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-11 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-10 23:47 [U-Boot] [PATCH] image: Don't relocate ramdisk to highmem Thierry Reding
2013-07-11  9:46 ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-07-11 12:39   ` Tom Rini
2013-07-11 15:00     ` Thierry Reding
2013-07-11 18:21       ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-07-11 18:29         ` Tom Rini
2013-07-11 19:06         ` Stephen Warren
2013-07-11 20:55           ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2013-07-11 19:08         ` Thierry Reding
2013-07-11 20:57           ` Wolfgang Denk

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