From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HWYjk-0005cr-DX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:02:52 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HWYjh-0005cW-47 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:02:51 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HWYjh-0005cT-0Y for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:02:49 -0500 Received: from mail.codesourcery.com ([65.74.133.4]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HWYhD-00078z-4y for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:00:15 -0400 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Increase max -kernel size Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:00:08 +0100 References: <20070327233517.GB16825@networkno.de> <20070328022110.GA8233@caradoc.them.org> In-Reply-To: <20070328022110.GA8233@caradoc.them.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200703281500.09730.paul@codesourcery.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Wednesday 28 March 2007 03:21, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 12:35:18AM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > Right, a piggyback-style loader would likely fail in that case. > > Which is exactly the interesting case for x86_64. So, since Paul's > verified that grub and lilo just put them far apart, maybe bumping up > the size is the right thing to do. Or always putting the initrd at > the top of emulated RAM. I'd prefer the latter, so that both big and small machines work. Linux still (just about) boots on 8Mb machines. Paul