Maximum bootable kernel size in current ARM linux

Nicolas Pitre nico at fluxnic.net
Tue Sep 14 13:37:42 EDT 2010


On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Catalin Marinas wrote:

> I think the Thumb-2 branch goes up to 16MB range. The Thumb-1 may be
> smaller but we don't support this in the kernel. That's why Thumb-2
> modules are within 8MB below PAGE_OFFSET. But this leaves us with
> maximum 8MB of kernel size.

Hmmm.  Would be worth moving the pkmap area below modules then.


Nicolas



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