Re: [PATCH 1/1] RISC-V: load initrd wherever it fits into memory

[Heinrich Schuchardt]

On 7/9/21 7:14 PM, Atish Patra wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 12:07 PM Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Jun 29 2021, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> >
> > > Requiring that initrd is loaded below RAM start + 256 MiB led to failure
> > > to boot SUSE Linux with GRUB on QEMU, cf.
> > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2021-06/msg00037.html
> > >
> > > Remove the constraint.
> > >
> > > Reported-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@xxxxxx>
> >
> > With that patch the image in
> > http://download.opensuse.org/ports/riscv/tumbleweed/iso/ work again.
>
> Thanks.
> @palmer: Can you take this one in this cycle ?

@Palmer, Paul, Albert
Ard suggested to move this patch through linux-riscv. Could you please
review the patch available at

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20210629134018.62859-1-xypron.glpk@xxxxxx/

The patch is necessary to boot on QEMU with GRUB with large initrd.

Best regards

Heinrich

> > Andreas.
> >
> > --
> > Andreas Schwab, schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> > "And now for something completely different."