From: "John Z. Bohach" <jzb2@aexorsyst.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: large initramfs causes h/w reset after decompressing
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:35:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201107141635.07673.jzb2@aexorsyst.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E1F7B40.6030705@zytor.com>
> > But excuse my ignorance, I don't see the relevance of your
> > question...the initramfs is part of the kernel itself...I simply
> > load the kernel bzImage (all 890 MB) and that's where its all
> > at...this is _not_ an initrd.
>
> Ah, interesting. You didn't say that. That does change some
> things... I would not at all be surprised if the kernel decompressor
> doesn't handle that very well...
>
Sorry, I thought initramfs would be clear on its own that its not
initrd, but I guess some people do use it interchangeably. Anyway, I
have some experience in programming, so is there anything you could
suggest that I might tweak to test your theory on the decompressor? Or
would this be more of a kernel VM allocator issue? Also, would
ramdisk_size have any bearing on this?
--john
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-14 23:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-14 16:06 John Z. Bohach
2011-07-14 21:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-14 22:32 ` John Z. Bohach
2011-07-14 23:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-14 23:35 ` John Z. Bohach [this message]
2011-07-15 0:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-15 0:35 ` John Z. Bohach
2011-07-14 16:37 John Z. Bohach
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