Hi, > I started playing around with this again. > I did a lot of things related to flush handling with no success. > In the end I decided to shrink my kernel-image (I use tftpboot.img). > > When I finally squezed the kernel (including rootfs) to allow > me to do the initial memory allocations in the memory area > below 0xa00000 then I could boot. > > So the inital mapping is limited to 10MB... > I need to find a way to extend the initial mapping without the need > to access allocated memory. > I have not looked at it yet - this is just a heads-up. I have an old working Gentoo userland on disk, so no need for a rootfs. My kernel-images are around 3.0-3.2MB, well within the 10MB limit. That's why my kernels boot and yours didn't. Since booting a kernel with SILO is limited to only 2605056 bytes I have to use tftboot too. Solving that problem would require to make a sparc32 kernel relocatable. M -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
