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From: dann frazier <dannf@hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: initrd_size inflation breaks initramfs
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:57:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1133193422.6062.109.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1133159027.6062.98.camel@localhost>

On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 10:44 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> dann frazier <dannf@hp.com> writes:
> 
> > My guess is that this is a bug in elilo.
> 
> Try this patch:
> 
> --- initrd.c
> +++ initrd.c
> @@ -94,6 +94,9 @@
>  
>  	initrd->start_addr = start_addr;
>  
> +	/* Clear extra memory since we don't pass the exact size.  */
> +	Memset(start_addr + size, 0, (pgcnt << EFI_PAGE_SHIFT) - size);
> +
>  	return ELILO_LOAD_SUCCESS;
>  
>  error:
> 

Thanks Andreas, that works.  Though I wonder if it wouldn't be better to
keep track of the actual initrd size?

-- 
dann frazier <dannf@hp.com>


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-28 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-28  6:23 initrd_size inflation breaks initramfs dann frazier
2005-11-28  9:44 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-11-28 15:57 ` dann frazier [this message]
2005-11-28 16:15 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-11-28 16:24 ` dann frazier
2005-11-28 16:27 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-11-28 16:28 ` dann frazier
2005-11-28 16:45 ` Brett Johnson

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