From: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
To: Thierry Bultel <thierry.bultel@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: xenomai@xenomai.org
Subject: Re: [Xenomai] Limited kernel size for booting ?
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:05:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51483887.4020504@xenomai.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51482868.5020206@wanadoo.fr>
On 03/19/2013 09:57 AM, Thierry Bultel wrote:
> Hi Gilles,
>
> First, I apologize for posting such a question that is sincerely not
> really related to xenomai.
> But I am using the kernel from ipipe-gch.git, branch ipipe-3.0-imx6q
>
> The issue I have is that it is not booting when using a really big
> built-in initramfs(about 60 Mo)
> It does not seem to reach "start_kernel", there is nomore log after
> Uboot says "Starting kernel"
>
> I have payed attention to address zones, and even tried to use an
> uncompressed kernel
> in the uImage container, to skip and discriminate the gzip phase. Same
> result.
>
> I do not have an operational Jtag probe yet, thus I only would like to
> get your opinion on
> this. To your mind, is this assumed to work ?
No, the maximum size of initramfs is limited, you need to change the
linker script to put the initramfs at the end of the memory used by the
kernel, a patch exists to do that on the linux arm kernel mailing list
and has been merged in recent kernels.
--
Gilles.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-19 10:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-19 8:57 [Xenomai] Limited kernel size for booting ? Thierry Bultel
2013-03-19 10:05 ` Gilles Chanteperdrix [this message]
2013-03-19 12:06 ` Gilles Chanteperdrix
2013-03-19 15:38 ` Thierry Bultel
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