[OLPC-devel] Kexec limitations?

[Ronald G Minnich]

Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 05:33:52PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
>>So skimming the threads I have heard two problem reports
>>with using kexec at the moment.
>>1) The general purpose kexec binary is big (about 128KB)
>>2) With large kernel images (kernel+initramfs) kexec is failing.
> 
> 
> The symptom is fixed by changing the initrd load address from
> 0x800000 (8MiB) to 0x1000000 (16MiB).

I should have tried that. I just figured that 8MiB was safe. Ah, well, 
that'll teach me.

ron