[U-Boot] [PATCH] image: Don't relocate ramdisk to highmem

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

Dear Stephen Warren,

In message <51DF024C.2080102@wwwdotorg.org> you wrote:
>
> > This depends a lot on a number of things.  For example, you should be
> > able to use a ramdisk in NOR flash directly, i. e. without loading it
> > to RAM first - especially if it;s a comprtessed ramdis image, and the
> > Kernel will copy/uncompress it anyway.
> 
> That would be nice, but I don't believe the kernel supports that (at
> least not on ARM):

You are right. RMK repeatedly rejected patches to allow this; but it
has always been available on other architectures, like PPC.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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