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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: sathis kanna <sathiskanna@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: physical memory Limitation
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On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 07:35:05AM -0800, sathis kanna wrote:

> For mips,
> is there any limitation for physical memory while
> uncomressing the image??(like i386 it is 4MB)
> 
> How to locate in code written in the kernel source?

We currently don't support compressed kernels.

But if we were supporting it the limitation would depend on size of
available memory and how it's used at boot time, that is the limit would
depend on the exact system.

  Ralf