Re: [BUG] initrd >24MB corruption (fwd)

From: Jeff Chua (jchua@fedex.com)
Date: Fri Aug 30 2002 - 02:12:40 EST


On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Jeff Chua wrote:

from linux/arch/i386/mm/init.c

/*
 * paging_init() sets up the page tables - note that the first 8MB are
 * already mapped by head.S.
 *
 * This routines also unmaps the page at virtual kernel address 0, so
 * that we can trap those pesky NULL-reference errors in the kernel.
 */

#if CONFIG_X86_PAE
        /*
         * We will bail out later - printk doesnt work right now so
         * the user would just see a hanging kernel.
         */
        if (cpu_has_pae)
                set_in_cr4(X86_CR4_PAE);
#endif

... does that mean the gzipped fs can only be <8MB? That could explain why
the ram6MB.gz worked and ram8MB.gz doesn't.

Jeff

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