Re: SPARC: 3.13-rc1 and newer: kernel size issue with tftpboot.img

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From: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2013 22:37:57 +0100

> Aaro Koskinen wrote:
> 
>> Sun Ultra 5/10 (OpenBoot 3.25) seems to have 10 MB limitation for the
>> tftpboot.img. With larger images "boot net" will fail with "Fast Data
>> Access MMU Miss":
> 
> Latest patchdiag.xref [0] shows that the last OBP for U5/10 was:
> OBP_3.31.0,POST_3.1.0,OBDIAG_P2.9 (106121-18) [1]
> 
> But I didn't see any bug fix related to that limit.

It's not a bug, and even if they increase the limit we always and
indefinitely need to support 10MB properly.

Therefore, I don't think that talking about the possibility of it
increasing is worthwhile.

Thanks.
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