From: b.hutchman@gmail.com (Brian Hutchinson)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Can physical flash initramfs cpio address be given to bootm?
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:09:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3d1967ab1003171209j43a9a005l4be5d2faf38fec31@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Can I use the physical flash address of a initramfs with the u-boot
bootm command? The kernel doesn't appear to like it .... see below.
I'm currently loading my cpio initramfs into u-boot via tftp and then
providing the initrd= bootarg which works now that I've changed my
memory model to sparsemem (Thanks Russell!).
I've tried to wrap the cpio with mkimage both with -a 0x0 -e 0x0 and a
RAM address such as -a 0x4000000 -e 0x4000000 (the location I tftp the
initramfs to)
When I do a bootm 0x20080000 (physical flash location of kernel)
0x20280000 (mkimage of cpio.gz made with -T ramdisk) the physical
flash address of the initramfs gets passed to kernel via ATAGS and the
kernel doesn't like it:
INITRD: 0x20280040+0x00c8bdb6 extends beyond physical memory - disabling initrd
I thought I saw a patch that allowed initramfs to come from physical
media (flash) but it looks like I currently have to copy the initramfs
to ram right now and provide the initrd= which I would like to get
away from since I don't want to have to touch u-boot env vars every
time the cpio changes.
How do you all load a initramfs from flash???
Regards,
Brian
next reply other threads:[~2010-03-17 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-17 19:09 Brian Hutchinson [this message]
2010-03-19 12:36 ` Can physical flash initramfs cpio address be given to bootm? Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-03-22 9:08 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-03-22 17:54 ` Brian Hutchinson
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