Hi,

I was wondering if there is a way to increase the RAM size of the Initrd in the 
qemu-arm-virt VM to more than the initially allowed which seems to be around 
250MB.
These are my current settings for the VM RAM:

#define VM_RAM_OFFSET 0x00000000
#define VM_INITRD_MAX_SIZE 0x9000000 // 150 MB

#define VM_RAM_BASE 0x40000000
#define VM_RAM_SIZE 0x20000000
#define VM_DTB_ADDR 0x4F000000 // VM0_RAM_BASE + 0xF000000
#define VM_INITRD_ADDR 0x46000000 // VM0_DTB_ADDR - VM_INITRD_MAX_SIZE

And what I would want is something like this:

#define VM_RAM_OFFSET 0x00000000
#define VM_INITRD_MAX_SIZE 0x20000000 // 500 MB

#define VM_RAM_BASE 0x40000000
#define VM_RAM_SIZE 0x30000000
#define VM_DTB_ADDR 0x6F000000 // VM0_RAM_BASE + 0xF000000    
#define VM_INITRD_ADDR 0x4F000000 // VM0_DTB_ADDR - VM_INITRD_MAX_SIZE

VM_DTB_ADDR should probably be 0x4F000000. If I interpreted it correctly it 
means that the VM_INITRD_ADDR will be below the VM_RAM_BASE_ADDR and therefore 
outside of the allocated memory for the VM.

But I assume that the comments regarding the address of the DTB that it is not 
possible to have a larger size of Initrd than the difference between 
VM_DTB_ADDR and the VM_RAM_BASE allows for.
I have tested with some different configurations and it either results in the 
boot hanging after touching the pages for the VM or results in a page error 
during the touching of pages. It however seems to work with having the 
VM_INITRD_MAX_SIZE larger than what could fit between the base and Initrd 
address but I assume that it would result in an error should the actual loaded 
initramfs require the whole allocated space.

What would be the correct way to achieve this if it is even possible? I assume 
that it might not even be possible if the addresses that has to be allocated 
for the larger Initrd is already used and allocated for other things.

Best regards,
Olof
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