linux-kernel - Re: ARM: relocation out of range (when loading a module)

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Date:	Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:26:09 -0500 (EST)
From:	Nicolas Pitre <nico@...xnic.net>
To:	Alexander Holler <holler@...oftware.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk, linux@....linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: ARM: relocation out of range (when loading a module)

On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, Alexander Holler wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I've build a kernel 2.6.37 for an armv5-device which includes an initramfs of
> about 16MB (uncompressed, result is a kernel of about 6MB) and I now getting
> errors when trying to load a module (which is included in that initramfs):

Do you really need to have such a bit initramfs?

What you can do to work around this issue is to load your initramfs 
separately as a initrd ramdisk image. , and not combine it with the 
kernel image.


Nicolas
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