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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Prabhu Chawandi <prabhu.chavandi@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, listar@nl.linux.org
Subject: Re: increasing memory alloted for 'init' during kernel boot.
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:58:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100831125830.GA14848@merkur.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C7CFAEA.2040408@gmail.com>

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 02:51:54PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 08/31/2010 10:43 AM, Prabhu Chawandi wrote:
> > Hi ,
> > 
> > Thanks for the info...
> > 
> > Problem I am facing is, I have two bootloaders, when I boot from one
> > loader booting happens properly.
> > 
> > but when I try to load from other loader, kernel does not boot, it
> > crashes. When i saw the boot logs, I saw that I memory allocated to
> > 'init' section in case of crash is short by almost 5MB to the normal
> > boot log.
> > 
> > I am using mips processor.
> > 
> > Any idea, why this might be happening ?
> 
> The bad loader probably loads the image wrong (incorrect data or not
> whole image).

Shmulik just posted a patch that may be related.
See: "MIPS: Calculate VMLINUZ_LOAD_ADDRESS based on the length of vmlinux.bin"

Looks like a bug I have introduced btw :-(

	Sam

      reply	other threads:[~2010-08-31 12:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-31  6:49 Prabhu Chawandi
2010-08-31  8:22 ` Jiri Slaby
2010-08-31  8:43   ` Prabhu Chawandi
2010-08-31 12:51     ` Jiri Slaby
2010-08-31 12:58       ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]

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