Okay to change default zImage link/load address?

Mark A. Greer mgreer at mvista.com
Sat Feb 10 05:55:28 EST 2007


On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 07:51:07PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 09, Mark A. Greer wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone know of a problem downloading to 8MB instead of 4MB in
> > arch/powerpc?  If not, would you object if it changed to 8MB?
> 
> IBM chrp 32 and 64bit has a free and usable memory range from 64k to
> 12M.
> Changing the link address from 4 to 8 MB will reduce the max zImage size
> to 3MB on these systems.

Hmm, not good.

Paul, may we may this configurable (i.e., a CONFIG option)?

Mark



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