[U-Boot] Limit of kernel size
Dan Malek
ppc6dev at digitaldans.com
Sun Sep 16 04:48:24 CEST 2012
On Sep 15, 2012, at 4:40 PM, J.Hwan Kim wrote:
> Is there limitation of the kernel size which u-boot loads?
No.
> My kernel is very big, because I included the ramdisk into the kernel.
> My kernel size is over 40MB.
> When I load the kernel through u-boot, the prcedure hangs in the
> boot step.
> The step is "Uncompressing Linux.... done, booting the kernel"
Yeah, I don't know what architecture you are using or the format of
your image, but I suspect the problem is with the wrapper or start up
code of the image.
There are lots of ways split/format such an image, I'd suggest asking
on the architecture specific Linux mailing list.
Thanks.
-- Dan
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