[U-Boot] [PATCH] ppc4xx: amcc: Set CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ to 16MB to enable booting of big kernels

Stefan Roese sr at denx.de
Wed Jul 29 16:49:04 CEST 2009


Hi Peter,

On Wednesday 29 July 2009 16:36:17 Peter Tyser wrote:
> > This patch changes CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ from 8MB to 16MB which is the
> > initial TLB on 40x PPC's in the Linux kernel. With this change even
> > bigger Linux kernels (> 8MB) can be booted.
>
> Might be nice to increase CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN at the same time.  Or
> maybe something along the lines of changing CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN to be
> based on CONFIG_SYS_BOOTMAPSZ in general as (at a glance) it looks like
> they should generally be the same value.

I never "tuned" CONFIG_SYS_BOOTM_LEN before. But you are right, this should be 
changed as well. I'll wait a short while for further comments on this and send 
an updated patch version then.

Thanks.

Best regards,
Stefan

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