Hi all,
after compiling my kernel on the arm architecture I was not able to
start it because qemu was segfaulting or going to an infinite loop.
After google'ing I found on launchpad the bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/524893
Following the indications, I rebuilt qemu with an higher initrd load
address and the kernel booted correctly.
I am trying to make the things easier and/or to fail gracefully with
patchset but I am not familiar with the ARM architecture neither qemu
internals, so may be I am totally wrong :)
The first patch raise an error if there is an overlapping error.
But the two next patches makes to compute automatically an address
for initrd to loaded.
Daniel Lezcano (3):
arm : raise an error if the kernel size will overlap the initrd
arm : factor out set_kernel_args[_old]
arm : make initrd load address dynamic
hw/arm-misc.h | 1 +
hw/arm_boot.c | 40 +++++++++++++++++++---------------------
2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)