Re: [Qemu-devel] [rfc 0/3] arm : dynamically choose initrd load address

[Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>]

On 09/06/2010 04:12 PM, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> after compiling my kernel on the arm architecture I was not able to
> start it because qemu was segfaulting or going to an infinite loop.
>
> After google'ing I found on launchpad the bug:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/524893
>
> Following the indications, I rebuilt qemu with an higher initrd load
> address and the kernel booted correctly.
>
> I am trying to make the things easier and/or to fail gracefully with
> patchset but I am not familiar with the ARM architecture neither qemu
> internals, so may be I am totally wrong :)
>
> The first patch raise an error if there is an overlapping error.
> But the two next patches makes to compute automatically an address
> for initrd to loaded.
>
> Daniel Lezcano (3):
>    arm : raise an error if the kernel size will overlap the initrd
>    arm : factor out set_kernel_args[_old]
>    arm : make initrd load address dynamic
>
>   hw/arm-misc.h |    1 +
>   hw/arm_boot.c |   40 +++++++++++++++++++---------------------
>   2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>    

Hi,

This patchset fix some issues Linaro people are facing when they are 
trying to boot a big kernel.
Any chance someone has time to review the patchset ? Is the patchset 
acceptable for upstream merge ?

thanks in advance
   -- Daniel