[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] image: Don't relocate ramdisk to highmem

Thierry Reding thierry.reding at gmail.com
Fri Sep 20 15:35:51 CEST 2013


The Linux kernel cannot unpack a ramdisk that's stored in high memory.
Unless the initrd_high environment variable is explicitly set, abide by
that restriction using the getenv_bootm_low() and getenv_bootm_mapsize()
helpers.

Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding at nvidia.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- update function header comment

 common/image.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/common/image.c b/common/image.c
index 2c88091..47336f2 100644
--- a/common/image.c
+++ b/common/image.c
@@ -966,7 +966,8 @@ int boot_get_ramdisk(int argc, char * const argv[], bootm_headers_t *images,
  *      end address (after possible relocation)
  *
  * boot_ramdisk_high() takes a relocation hint from "initrd_high" environement
- * variable and if requested ramdisk data is moved to a specified location.
+ * variable and if requested ramdisk data is moved to a specified location. If
+ * no such hint is given, the default is to relocate the initrd to low memory.
  *
  * Initrd_start and initrd_end are set to final (after relocation) ramdisk
  * start/end addresses if ramdisk image start and len were provided,
@@ -991,8 +992,8 @@ int boot_ramdisk_high(struct lmb *lmb, ulong rd_data, ulong rd_len,
 		if (initrd_high == ~0)
 			initrd_copy_to_ram = 0;
 	} else {
-		/* not set, no restrictions to load high */
-		initrd_high = ~0;
+		/* make sure to put ramdisk in low memory */
+		initrd_high = getenv_bootm_low() + getenv_bootm_mapsize();
 	}
 
 
-- 
1.8.4



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