On 11/21/2012 06:37 AM, Vivek Goyal wrote:
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:31:38PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
[..]
+ /* avoid cross GB boundary */
+ align = real_mode->kernel_alignment;
+ addr = locate_hole(info, size, align, 0x100000, -1, -1);
+ if (addr == ULONG_MAX)
+ die("can not load bzImage64");
+ /* same GB ? */
+ while ((addr >> 30) != ((addr + size - 1) >> 30)) {
+ addr = locate_hole(info, size, align, 0x100000,
+ round_down(addr + size - 1, (1UL<<30)), -1);
+ if (addr == ULONG_MAX)
+ die("can not load bzImage64");
+ }
+ dbgprintf("Found kernel buffer at %lx size %lx\n", addr, size);
Where does this limitation of not loading kernel across GB boundary come
from?
Seriously... that is bizarre.
-hpa
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