Bug#452798: SGI hardware

2007-12-24 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Guido Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-11-26 09:34]: On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 06:58:54PM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: For the record arcload usually loads the initrd in that area too, and I haven't seen any problem on my I2 when I tried that (though I'd need some more reports). The problem

Bug#452798: SGI hardware

2007-11-26 Thread Guido Guenther
Hi Julien, On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 06:58:54PM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: For the record arcload usually loads the initrd in that area too, and I haven't seen any problem on my I2 when I tried that (though I'd need some more reports). The problem is not the initrd being loaded into that space,

Bug#452798: SGI hardware

2007-11-26 Thread Julien BLACHE
Guido Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The problem is not the initrd being loaded into that space, the problem is that current tip22 wouldwaste completely waste the segment markes as (2) with the current setup and since we tip22 (in contrast to arcboot and arcload) needs ram for the

Bug#452798: SGI hardware

2007-11-25 Thread Julien BLACHE
Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Patch attached, applies on top of the previous one. Yep, that works. Can you send it to Guido and #452798 Both patches attached. - first one for 64bit kernel support, though it looks like it wasn't needed after all? - second one for proper

Bug#452798: SGI hardware

2007-11-25 Thread Julien BLACHE
Guido Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, No this won't be enough since we're running out of space at the location where we put the tftpimage too. I'll come up with a final fix during the Yep that's what I understood from your previous mail to tbm, indeed. next days - I'll also have to

Bug#452798: SGI hardware

2007-11-25 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Guido Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-11-25 18:53]: No this won't be enough since we're running out of space at the location where we put the tftpimage too. I'll come up with a final fix during the next days - I'll also have to check what the kernel does when we put the initrd that high

Bug#452798: SGI hardware

2007-11-25 Thread Guido Guenther
Thanks Julien! On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 06:36:59PM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: Both patches attached. - first one for 64bit kernel support, though it looks like it wasn't needed after all? - second one for proper initrd loading, actually using malloc() to get a suitable memory area No