Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/arm_boot.c: bump initrd address (again) to accommodate large kernels

[Peter Maydell]

On 7 October 2012 23:27, Cole Robinson <address@hidden> wrote:
> From: Paul Whalen <address@hidden>
>
> Fedora ARM is generating kernels that exceed the hardcoded size limits:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=862766
>
> Bump the load address, as was previously done in 756ba3b
>
> Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <address@hidden>
> ---
>  hw/arm_boot.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/hw/arm_boot.c b/hw/arm_boot.c
> index a6e9143..3cabb71 100644
> --- a/hw/arm_boot.c
> +++ b/hw/arm_boot.c
> @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
>
>  #define KERNEL_ARGS_ADDR 0x100
>  #define KERNEL_LOAD_ADDR 0x00010000
> -#define INITRD_LOAD_ADDR 0x00d00000
> +#define INITRD_LOAD_ADDR 0x01d00000

This makes me sad but I still have no idea what we could
do that would be better than this...

-- PMM