On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 02:49:47PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Linux expects linux,initrd-end to contain the first unused address. As > this doesn't match the end semantic used by barebox (i.e. end contains > the last used address) adding one is necessary. > > Without this change Linux fails for me to correctly extract a gzipped > cpio archive provided as initrd. > > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/of/base.c | 6 +++++- > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/of/base.c b/drivers/of/base.c > index d22031f..6cb5521 100644 > --- a/drivers/of/base.c > +++ b/drivers/of/base.c > @@ -1078,6 +1078,10 @@ int of_device_is_stdout_path(struct device_d *dev) > * > * Add initrd properties to the devicetree, or, if end is 0, > * delete them. > + * > + * Note that Linux interprets end differently than Barebox. For Linux end points > + * to the first address after the memory occupied by the image while barebox > + * lets end pointing the the last occupied byte. The first "the" in the line above should be a "to". Sascha: Assuming you are happy with the patch: Can you fix this up while committing? Best regards Uwe -- Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-König | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox
