Maximum bootable kernel size in current ARM linux

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Fri Sep 17 06:09:10 EDT 2010


On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 18:51 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> I think we're better of staying as we are - thereby keeping the performance
> for the majority use case, and telling those few people who want a massive
> kernel binary not to do that.  In the case of a large initramfs, pass it
> in as an initrd, possibly using the bootp stuff I've mentioned previously
> if you want a single self-contained image.

You can also create a big blob containing kernel and filesystem with
something like this (adapted for one's needs):

http://linux-arm.org/LinuxReference/RunningOnModel

-- 
Catalin




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