Bug#809476: Linux 4.4-rc6 fails to boot on QNAP TS-109
* Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> [2015-12-30 16:09]:
> I guess the kernel is uncompressed and overwrites part of the ramdisk
> located at 0x800000. I don't really get this part because
> arch/arm/boot/Image is only 6.1 MB (but vmlinux is around 9 MB, even
> on the kernel that works).
Actually, now that I think about it, this makes perfect sense since
we're loading a 2 MB image to 0x8000 which is then presumably
decompressed right after the image leading to another 6 MB. So around
8 MB. If it's too large, it would overwrite the ramdisk at 0x800000.
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Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/
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