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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: T Ziomek <ctz001@email.mot.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded <linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: AW: AW: AW: initrd rootfs ramdisk
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 01:33:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050721233302.BDBF5352B83@atlas.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 Jul 2005 16:12:18 CDT." <Pine.WNT.4.61.0507211609080.2672@holyoke.labs.mot.com>

In message <Pine.WNT.4.61.0507211609080.2672@holyoke.labs.mot.com> you wrote:
>
> Sigh...found it, after weeks of on-and-off work...  Our board has 64 MB of
> RAM but I'm passing "mem=32M" to the kernel because we want our app to man-
> age the high 32 MB.
> 
> U-Boot defaults to copying an initrd into the highest available RAM.  That
> put it in an area outside of Linux's knowledge, D'OH.  All I had to do was
> set U-Boot's 'initrd_high' env var and things work.

Note: if you want the  content  of  this  reserved  area  to  survice
warmboots  you  can  enable  the  "protected  RAM"  feature in U-Boot
(CONFIG_PRAM), and it will not touch this area  at  all.  Useful  for
things like pramfs for example :-)

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

-- 
Software Engineering:  Embedded and Realtime Systems,  Embedded Linux
Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@denx.de
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supposed to do.                                      - R. A. Heinlein

      reply	other threads:[~2005-07-21 23:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2005-07-20 22:05 ` AW: AW: initrd rootfs ramdisk T Ziomek
2005-07-21  7:30   ` AW: " David Grab
2005-07-21 21:12     ` T Ziomek
2005-07-21 23:33       ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]

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