From patchwork Fri Jul 9 05:03:43 2010 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [13/14] Allocate kernel and ramdisk as low as possible Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:03:43 -0000 From: Anton Blanchard X-Patchwork-Id: 58336 Message-Id: <20100709050342.533669160@samba.org> To: yaboot-devel@lists.ozlabs.org We currently start the search for free memory for the kernel at 12MB. This made sense back when firmware (real-base) was always 12MB, but it doesn't now it is often at 32MB. In light of this and now we have fixed the initrd load issues, just try and allocate the kernel as low as possible. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard --- Index: yaboot/Makefile =================================================================== --- yaboot.orig/Makefile 2010-07-09 14:13:06.000000000 +1000 +++ yaboot/Makefile 2010-07-09 14:13:16.000000000 +1000 @@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ GETROOT = fakeroot TEXTADDR = 0x100000 # Malloc block of 1MB MALLOCSIZE = 0x100000 -# Load kernel and ramdisk at real-base. If there is overlap, will retry until find open space -KERNELADDR = 0x00C00000 +# Load kernel and ramdisk at as low as possible +KERNELADDR = 0x00000000 # Set this to the prefix of your cross-compiler, if you have one. # Else leave it empty.