Bug#809476: Linux 4.4-rc6 fails to boot on QNAP TS-109
On Thu, 2015-12-31 at 08:20 -0800, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * 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.
FWIW, makes sense to me.
Ian.
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