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


From: Peter Maydell
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/arm_boot.c: bump initrd address (again) to accommodate large kernels
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 08:34:19 +0100

On 8 October 2012 01:09, Peter Crosthwaite
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Another completely different but workable solution is to dynamically
> determine a initrd (and dtb) location. Any reason why the bootloader
> can't track what memory real estate is in use by what pieces and just
> pick a piece of vacant real estate big enough for the dtb or initrd?

The trouble is that the common case is a zImage and there's no way
to tell how big the zImage will be when uncompressed.

-- PMM



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