Hi Dave,
no if well remeber for 2.6.18 it's "ramdisk_size" (before this option
had a name slightly different) but you can check it out in the kernel
documentation (in the documentation folder of your kernel). Another
thing: you should check out that the kernel, the initram disk and the
dtb are loaded in ram from your bootloader without overlapping, maybe
you've changed the dimensions and something is overlapped.
Regards.
Dave Littell ha scritto:
Marco Stornelli wrote:
Hi Dave,
if I well understood you've done a "manual" operation very ugly. You can
adjust the default settings in the kernel menu under device
drivers/block devices and set the number of ramdisk device and the
default size. You can use even the kernel command line option
"ramdisk_size" to tell to the kernel the size of the ramdisk size you
are using.
Regards.
Hi Marco,
Thanks for the reply. I believe the ramdisk settings are OK, but I'll
post them later to confirm. I did try changing those settings, but that
didn't help.
Is the kernel command-line option "ramdisk_size" or "ramdisk-size" for
2.6.18?
Thanks,
Dave
Dave Littell ha scritto:
Hi all,
I believe my initramfs has grown beyond some limit, but I'm at a loss to
know how to correct it. We recognized that we would have to allow a
larger initramfs than the defaults provided, so I modified the following
(on a 2.6.18 kernel):
1. .../arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper: A "-Ttext=0x1000000" was added to the
ld args.
2. .../arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds.S: The ALIGN() directive was changed
to use 16 instead of 4.
I thought I was finished and everything seemed to be working well with
an initramfs CPIO archive size of approx. 9 MB. However, we just had
another size increase (to a CPIO archive size of approx. 12 MB) and now
I'm rewarded with this at boot:
## Booting image at 08000000 ...
Image Name: Linux-2.6.18_pro500-440epx_eval
Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
Data Size: 7113720 Bytes = 6.8 MB
Load Address: 01000000
Entry Point: 01000410
Verifying Checksum ... OK
Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
CPU clock-frequency <- 0x27bc86ae (667MHz)
CPU timebase-frequency <- 0x27bc86ae (667MHz)
/plb: clock-frequency <- 9ef21ab (167MHz)
/plb/opb: clock-frequency <- 4f790d5 (83MHz)
/plb/opb/ebc: clock-frequency <- 34fb5e3 (56MHz)
/plb/opb/[EMAIL PROTECTED]: clock-frequency <- a8c000 (11MHz)
/plb/opb/[EMAIL PROTECTED]: clock-frequency <- a8c000 (11MHz)
/plb/opb/[EMAIL PROTECTED]: clock-frequency <- a8c000 (11MHz)
/plb/opb/[EMAIL PROTECTED]: clock-frequency <- a8c000 (11MHz)
Memory <- <0x0 0x0 0x10000000> (256MB)
ENET0: local-mac-address <- 00:80:3f:0d:80:0d
ENET1: local-mac-address <- 79:60:04:ea:d9:a1
zImage starting: loaded at 0x01000000 (sp: 0x0ff182e8)
Allocating 0x904dc0 bytes for kernel ...
gunzipping (0x00000000 <- 0x0100d000:0x01912c90)...done 0x8de100 bytes
Linux/PowerPC load: console=ttyS0,115200 console=ttyMTD3
Finalizing device tree... flat tree at 0x191f3a0
Here it sits, forever. I poked around a bit with the JTAG and found (in
one instance) that probe_machine() (from setup_common.c) was taking a
DataTLBError exception because it appears the machine descriptors are
scrubbed to 0. I added some debug code to setup_common.c, but on the
next attempted boot the JTAG showed that DataTLBError exceptions in
identify_cpu() (cputable.c).
If I reduce the size of initramfs back to it's original size the system
runs just fine. So, I'm guessing the larger initramfs is somehow
stomping on something, but have no idea how to proceed to resolve this.
Thanks very much,
Dave
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