Re: How does boot loader tell the kernel, the location of initrd?

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Hi,

On 3/15/07, Rajat Jain <rajat.noida.india@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am wondering how does the kernel get to know the address at which
the initrd is loaded by boot loader?

u-boot can pass the initrd location and size as argument to the kernel.

initrd documentation:
http://lxr.linux.no/source/Documentation/initrd.txt

Any code references will be appreciated.

I think it is setup.S (arch/<architecture>/boot) where it is assigned:
http://lxr.linux.no/source/arch/i386/boot/setup.S

SK

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