[PATCH - kexec] arm: place initrd to safer place according to zImage length

Simon Horman horms at verge.net.au
Mon May 10 23:28:50 EDT 2010


On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:36:44AM +0800, Eric Miao wrote:
> commit 4b6d55c7780dbf383c6b64e560d459d15a891006
> Author: Eric Miao <eric.miao at canonical.com>
> Date:   Fri Apr 23 10:19:43 2010 +0800
> 
>     arm: place initrd to safer place according to zImage length
> 
>     The original fixed address of 0x800000 may be overwritten after the
>     kernel is decompressed.  Assume a maximum decompression ratio of 4
>     and place initrd right after that, just to be safer.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.miao at canonical.com>

Thanks, applied.



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