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From: nico@fluxnic.net (Nicolas Pitre)
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:37:42 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Maximum bootable kernel size in current ARM linux
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On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Catalin Marinas wrote:

> I think the Thumb-2 branch goes up to 16MB range. The Thumb-1 may be
> smaller but we don't support this in the kernel. That's why Thumb-2
> modules are within 8MB below PAGE_OFFSET. But this leaves us with
> maximum 8MB of kernel size.

Hmmm.  Would be worth moving the pkmap area below modules then.


Nicolas