[RFC] arm: Update Booting document for FDT placement and reserved map

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Wed May 29 14:05:09 EDT 2013


On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Grant Likely <grant.likely at linaro.org> wrote:

> In this patch I've stated that the initrd doesn't need to be included in
> the reserved map. However, should this be changed? Right now the
> decompressor doesn't actually look at the reserved map when
> decompressing and moving things around. If I'm reading the code
> correctly it is possible that the decompressor will overwrite the initrd
> if it gets placed too close to the kernel.

Maybe people aren't seeing this so much because anyone who
wants to place the ramfs close to the kernel (say because of
memory space constraints) is already using initramfs instead
of initrd?

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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