On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 12:41:25PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 13:08:22 -0400 > Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I suspect that in the long run, I really need to make it so that the > > initrd gets lower memory precendence over the kernel. The kernel itself > > can be loaded anywhere for sparc64, even in 64-bit address ranges. > > > > But for now, I am about to release SILO 1.4.6 to atleast make this less > > of a mystery on systems where it fails. > > I have a better idea, remove the 32-bit limitation. > > Create a new HdrS version, add a new member at the end of the bootloader > header area "sparc_ramdisk_image64", set it to ~0 by default, if the > bootloader sets it to some non-~0 value, we use it instead of the > 32-bit limited sparc_ramdisk_image value.
The downside is that I need to load and evaluate the kernel before loading the initrd in order for it to work. I was already considering this, but I need to make sure I don't get into a chicken and egg situation like I did with the feature to load the kernel to a non-zero location. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]