Re: simpleImage.XX and large kernels

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

Dear John Williams,

In message <1d3f23371002080247j17138famcf4e4aebc1ae04f5@mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> I'm looking at the simpleImage.XXX make target (PPC 405/440), and it
> seems that by default the arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper script places the
> bootwrapper at 0x400000, effectively setting a limit on the maximum
> bootable kernel size.
> 
> For various reasons we'd like to be able to put a fairly complete
> rootfs as an initramfs, which obviously blows past a 4Mbyte limit very
> quickly.  Short of adding a new 'platform' option and associated
> hackery through the powerpc/boot Makefiles and wrapper, is there a
> quick and clean way I can tell the boot wrapper to link at a higher
> address?

Is there any specific reason why you want to use simpleImage, instead
of using a normal uImage either bundled with your ramdisk image as a
classic multifile image, or (recommended) as a FIT image?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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