From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Subject: Re: Okay to change default zImage link/load address? From: Josh Boyer To: David Gibson In-Reply-To: <20070209223531.GA7339@localhost.localdomain> References: <20070209184345.GA28127@mag.az.mvista.com> <20070209185107.GA12703@aepfle.de> <20070209185528.GB28127@mag.az.mvista.com> <1171048464.4884.230.camel@zod.rchland.ibm.com> <20070209223531.GA7339@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 19:27:36 -0600 Message-Id: <1171070856.4884.235.camel@zod.rchland.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linuxppc-dev , Olaf Hering , Paul Mackerras List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 09:35 +1100, David Gibson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 01:14:22PM -0600, Josh Boyer wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 11:55 -0700, Mark A. Greer wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 07:51:07PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: > > > > On Fri, Feb 09, Mark A. Greer wrote: > > > > > > > > > Does anyone know of a problem downloading to 8MB instead of 4MB in > > > > > arch/powerpc? If not, would you object if it changed to 8MB? > > > > > > > > IBM chrp 32 and 64bit has a free and usable memory range from 64k to > > > > 12M. > > > > Changing the link address from 4 to 8 MB will reduce the max zImage size > > > > to 3MB on these systems. > > > > > > Hmm, not good. > > > > > > Paul, may we may this configurable (i.e., a CONFIG option)? > > > > Something like that is going to be needed for 4xx anyway. > > Uh.. don't think so. I'm booting fine on 440, loading the zImage at > 4MB. Yes, sorry. Was thinking of where vmlinux is uncompressed to by the bootwrapper, but you've solved that a different way as well. josh