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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1101121350350.25498@xanadu.home> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:55:24 -0500 (EST) From: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org> To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk> cc: Dave Martin <dave.martin@...aro.org>, Alexander Holler <holler@...oftware.de>, Rabin Vincent <rabin@....in>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org> Subject: Re: ARM: relocation out of range (when loading a module) On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > Then came along the embedded initrd/initramfs idea which rather buggered > the scheme when large initramfs are embedded into the image. > > As the overall feeling at the time was "don't use large initrds" it's > something I've never really cared about - and I'm still of the opinion > that 16MB of compressed initrd/initramfs is rather silly. It is... but we have more than 32MB of RAM total now, and people are running standard distributions on ARM these days, such as Fedora or Ubuntu, including their corresponding initrd that may contain lots of modules, splashscreen data, etc. So it might be a good idea to think about fixing this limitation before it comes back again. Nicolas -- 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/
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