linux-kernel - Re: 3.4.0-rc1: No init found

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Date:	Wed, 4 Apr 2012 09:45:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de>
To:	"Suzuki K. Poulose" <suzuki@...ibm.com>
cc:	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 3.4.0-rc1: No init found

On Wed, 4 Apr 2012 at 18:06, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:
> > INFO: Uncompressed kernel (size 0x6d4b80) overlaps the address of the
> > wrapper(0x400000)
> > INFO: Fixing the link_address of wrapper to (0x700000)
> >    Building modules, stage 2.
> >    MODPOST 24 modules
> > ------------
> > 
> > I started to see these messages in January (around Linux 3.2.0), but never
> > investigated what it was since the produced kernels continued to boot just
> > fine.
> 
> The above change was added by me. The message is printed when the 'wrapper'
> script finds that decompressed kernel overlaps the 'bootstrap code' which does
> the decompression. So it shifts the 'address' of the bootstrap code to the
> next higher MB. As such it is harmless.

OK, good to know that it's harmless. Thanks for the explanation.

Christian.
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