In PPC64 there are number of problems in arch/ppc64/boot/main.c that
prevent a kernel from making use of a large (greater than ~16MB) INITRD.
This is 64 bit architecture and really large INITRD images should be
possible.
Simply put the existing code has a fixed reservation (claim) address and
once the kernel plus initrd image are large enough to pass this address
all sorts of bad things occur. The fix is the dynamically establish the
first claim address above the loaded kernel plus initrd (plus some
"padding" and rounding). If PROG_START is defined this will be used as
the minimum safe address - currently known to be 0x01400000 for the
firmwares tested so far.
Signed-off-by: Mark Bellon <mbellon@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Make the bootheader for ppc64 independent from kernel and libc headers.
* add -nostdinc -isystem $gccincludes to not include libc headers
* declare all functions in header files, also the stuff from string.S
* declare some functions static
* use stddef.h to get size_t (hopefully ok)
* remove ppc32-types.h, only elf.h used the __NN types
With further modifications by Paul Mackerras and Stephen Rothwell.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
initrd size is printed as hex, add a missing 0x
remove a duplicate printf when initrd is used.
remove use of kernel type to access the first bytes of the initrd memarea.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
remove the printk usage in the zImage. we are not there, yet.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
The defines in bootinfo.h are not used, so the include can be removed.
According to Ben, birecs are not used on ppc64:
on ppc64, we made the decision of enforcing the presence of an
OF device-tree and either an OF-like client interface or a kexec
like flattened tree.
so if your bootloader want to say things to the kernel,
it can do so by adding properties to the device-tree
compile-tested with defconfig
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Mark Bellon