On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 04:29:44PM -0400, Kent Borg wrote: > We are booting our kernel via the arch/ppc/boot/simple mechanism to > package up our kernel and initrd. It seems to work, until we get too > big. What is big? Roughly 8 MB for our one big uncompressed userland > program, plus the kernel, bash, busybox, and various userland > utilities. > > Can initrd's get that large and still work? Is the simple boot code > sensible with these sizes? (I notice that the "avail ram" message > that gets printed is just hard coded number...)
After reading the follow ups, is the problem that the kernel never boots if you pass too large of a ramdisk or that the app does not work? -- Tom Rini http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
