Re: Atari 4 MiB kernel limit
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> wrote:
>> does the limit apply to just the kernel image
>> (plus some margin) or is the initrd also subject
>> to that restriction?
>
> That's a very good question ;-)
>
> The 4 MiB limit only applies to early startup, in arch/m68k/kernel/head.S.
> Initrd is accessed later, in arch/m68k/kernel/setup_mm.c, so I'd expect it to
> not fall under the limit.
>
> Of course, better try it to be sure ;-)
On ARAnyM, I could boot a 4 MiB initrd (note that ARAnyM doesn't seem to
support gzipped ramdisks!), created by appending zeroes to the good old
filesys-ELF-2.0.x-1400K-2, and running resize2fs.
It even worked with a 32 MiB initrd, after increasing xx to 32768.
Haven't tried with the Amiga yet.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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