From: "Bjorn Eriksson" <mdeans@algonet.se>
To: <mtd@infradead.org>
Subject: Update: Simplified initrd on flash/ROM.
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 23:07:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <002c01bffcc5$bc74eec0$0800a8c0@win95.inteloop.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002801bffcac$7d84e8a0$0800a8c0@win95.inteloop.se>
> Does anyone know why I'm not allowed to call ioremap() in
> i386/kernel/setup.c:setup_arch()? It fails with the message 'kmem_alloc:
> NULL ptr (name=unknown)' when __ioremap() calls get_vm_area(size).
Rudely replying to my self... I obviously didn't research this enough
before posting. The reason seems to be that the slab allocator isn't
initialised yet at this point so the kmalloc() call in get_vm_area() fails.
I guess I'll have to defer the initialisation till later on in the boot
process.
//Björnen.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-08-02 21:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-07-31 15:18 Booting from flash David Vrabel
2000-07-31 15:29 ` David Woodhouse
2000-07-31 15:48 ` Kira Brown
2000-07-31 18:56 ` Bjorn Eriksson
2000-07-31 21:15 ` Kira Brown
2000-08-02 18:07 ` Simplified initrd on flash/ROM Bjorn Eriksson
2000-08-02 21:07 ` Bjorn Eriksson [this message]
2000-08-01 8:38 ` Booting from flash David Vrabel
2000-08-05 5:22 ` root
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