On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Thorsten Glaser <[email protected]> wrote:
> does the limit apply to just the kernel image
> (plus some margin) or is the initrd also subject
> to that restriction?
That's a very good question ;-)
The 4 MiB limit only applies to early startup, in arch/m68k/kernel/head.S.
Initrd is accessed later, in arch/m68k/kernel/setup_mm.c, so I'd expect it to
not fall under the limit.
Of course, better try it to be sure ;-)
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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