On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 3:59 AM, Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 26 Aug, at 02:45:44PM, Yinghai Lu wrote: > The reason I suggested introducing some kind of kernel parameter to > allow loading above 4G is because if Mantas loads a 5GB initrd with your > patch, his machine is still going to hang, with no indication of why it > hung. > > At least with a kernel paramter, by default we can try to load under 4G, > and if that fails because the file is too big we can print something > along the lines of, > > "initramfs file too large: try booting with efi=file-max" > > No, it's not ideal, but I think it's a worthwhile compromise because > you're only going to run into this issue when loading a huge initramfs > with the EFI boot stub. I would like to avoid adding more kernel parameter. How about adding more info print out like: "Try to load initrd file to higher address..." Thanks Yinghai -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
