From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757030Ab2DDQp6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2012 12:45:58 -0400 Received: from trent.utfs.org ([94.185.90.103]:53933 "EHLO trent.utfs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756876Ab2DDQp5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2012 12:45:57 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 09:45:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Christian Kujau To: "Suzuki K. Poulose" cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, LKML Subject: Re: 3.4.0-rc1: No init found In-Reply-To: <4F7C4058.6090405@in.ibm.com> Message-ID: References: <1333440522.3040.9.camel@pasglop> <4F7C4058.6090405@in.ibm.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-AV-Checked: ClamAV using ClamSMTP (127.0.0.1) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 4 Apr 2012 at 18:06, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote: > > INFO: Uncompressed kernel (size 0x6d4b80) overlaps the address of the > > wrapper(0x400000) > > INFO: Fixing the link_address of wrapper to (0x700000) > > Building modules, stage 2. > > MODPOST 24 modules > > ------------ > > > > I started to see these messages in January (around Linux 3.2.0), but never > > investigated what it was since the produced kernels continued to boot just > > fine. > > The above change was added by me. The message is printed when the 'wrapper' > script finds that decompressed kernel overlaps the 'bootstrap code' which does > the decompression. So it shifts the 'address' of the bootstrap code to the > next higher MB. As such it is harmless. OK, good to know that it's harmless. Thanks for the explanation. Christian. -- BOFH excuse #256: You need to install an RTFM interface.