On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 11:30 +0200, Adrian Reber wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 06:13:23PM +1000, Tony Breeds wrote: > > Currently we set the start of the .text section to be 4Mb for pSeries. > > In situations where the zImage is > 8Mb we'll fail to boot (due to > > overlapping with OF). Move .text in a zImage from 4MB to 64MB (well past > > OF). > > > > We still will not be able to load large zImage unless we also move OF, > > to that end, add a note to the zImage ELF to move OF to 32Mb. If this > > is the very first kernel booted then we'll need to moev OF manually by > > setting real-base. > > Does this change also affect kernels for SLOF based systems (JS20, JS21, > Bimini/Powerstation, QS21, QS22)?
Yes, they use the same zImage. > To avoid exactly that problem SLOF moved to a bit below 256MB on all > those platforms (about 220MB). There should be still enough space > between 64MB and 220MB to boot large kernels. It is, however, decreased > by 60MB. That should leave plenty of space... Cheers, Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev