[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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