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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:59:30 +0000
From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
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Subject: Re: ARM: relocation out of range (when loading a module)
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On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 09:16:38PM +0530, Rabin Vincent wrote:
> It's possible to hack around this by placing the initramfs at the end of
> the kernel image rather than at the beginning with the rest of the init
> data.  Something like the below should work, although you should also
> probably take care of alignment and also have this section freed when
> the rest of the init data is freed.

You're then running into problems as _sdata.._edata is copied to RAM on
XIP kernels, and you really don't want to waste time copying the
initramfs to RAM.