From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: mjw@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] change where the kernel loads
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:09:50 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <478D211E.6050209@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <478D2038.4090205@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Mike Wolf wrote:
> When netbooting a kernel with an initrd or initramfs that makes
> the image larger than 8 meg the firmware will kick out the kernel
> and go to the second boot device. However when the mkzimage
> script is used to create the image instead of 'make zImage' then
> the kernel/initrd will netboot. So this patch changes boot/zImage.lds
> to load the kernel at the same location that the mkzimage would set.
>
> This has been boot tested on POWER5, POWER5+, blades and POWER6
> systems successfully.
This will fail on any platform without a vmlinux_alloc(), as there will
be insufficient room for the kernel at address zero.
-Scott
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-15 21:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-15 21:06 [PATCH] change where the kernel loads Mike Wolf
2008-01-15 21:09 ` Scott Wood [this message]
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