Re: [PATCH v3 06/10] arm64: efi: add EFI stub

From: Timur Tabi
Date: Wed Feb 08 2017 - 11:30:17 EST


On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> +/*
> + * EFI entry point for the arm/arm64 EFI stubs. This is the entrypoint
> + * that is described in the PE/COFF header. Most of the code is the same
> + * for both archictectures, with the arch-specific code provided in the
> + * handle_kernel_image() function.
> + */
> +unsigned long __init efi_entry(void *handle, efi_system_table_t *sys_table,
> + unsigned long *image_addr)
> +{

...

> +
> + status = handle_cmdline_files(sys_table, image, cmdline_ptr,
> + "initrd=", dram_base + SZ_512M,
> + (unsigned long *)&initrd_addr,
> + (unsigned long *)&initrd_size);

So I know this patch is almost three years old, but why is there a
512M limit on the initrd size?

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