lists.openwall.net   lists  /  announce  owl-users  owl-dev  john-users  john-dev  passwdqc-users  yescrypt  popa3d-users  /  oss-security  kernel-hardening  musl  sabotage  tlsify  passwords  /  crypt-dev  xvendor  /  Bugtraq  Full-Disclosure  linux-kernel  linux-netdev  linux-ext4  linux-hardening  linux-cve-announce  PHC 
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
 
Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.
[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-Id: <20090517133417.9E0FC832E416@gemini.denx.de>
Date:	Sun, 17 May 2009 15:34:17 +0200
From:	Wolfgang Denk <wd@...x.de>
To:	Konstantin Baydarov <kbaidarov@...mvista.com>
cc:	Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [PowerPC] Support For Initrd Loaded Into Highmem

Dear Konstantin Baydarov,

In message <4A103EDF.7050108@...mvista.com> you wrote:
> 
>   It turned out that:
> PPC uBoot always loads initrd image at the highest RAM address. So if board has

Please read the documentation, for example the U-Boot  README  -  pay
speicial  attention  to  the section that discusses the "initrd_high"
envrionment variable.

>   How Solved:
> Code was added that checks if initrd is in the highmem and relocates initrd
> into lowmem if required.

I don't think this is needed. Just don't load the ramdisk to highmem
in the first place.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

-- 
DENX Software Engineering GmbH,     MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel
HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany
Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@...x.de
How come everyone's going so slow if it's called rush hour?
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Powered by blists - more mailing lists

Powered by Openwall GNU/*/Linux Powered by OpenVZ