[U-Boot-Users] Linux kernel crash when using initrd and OF tree

Zang Roy-r61911 tie-fei.zang at freescale.com
Mon Aug 7 10:00:41 CEST 2006


Please try 
setenv initrd_high 0

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I want to use an initrd on a MPC85xx processor with 512MB RAM.
> U-boot uses CONFIG_OF_FLAT_TREE to provide the bootargs to 
> the kernel. 
> I found out, that the Linux kernel crashes at the first 
> access to the OF tree in memory. It seems that it's because 
> the OF tree is located just below the initrd in memory, but 
> the Linux kernel maps only the first 16MByte at startup.
> (When no initrd is used the OF tree is located differently - 
> the kernel starts without problems.) Is there a reason for 
> this different mapping scheme? 
> Did I missed something? Shall we patch u-boot or the kernel?
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Torsten
> 
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