linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 00/27] x86, boot, 64bit: Add support for loading ramdisk and bzImage above 4G

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Message-ID: <20121222132419.GB2936@phenom.dumpdata.com>
Date:	Sat, 22 Dec 2012 08:24:19 -0500
From:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 00/27] x86, boot, 64bit: Add support for loading
 ramdisk and bzImage above 4G

On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 07:01:21PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Earlyprintk please?

PXELINUX 3.82 2009-06-09  Copyright (C) 1994-2009 H. Peter Anvin et al
Loading vmlinuz.......................................................................
Loading initramfs.cpio.gz.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ready.
Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)... ok
early console in decompress_kernel

Decompressing Linux... Parsing ELF... done.
Booting the kernel.

Interestingly enough I only see this on any AMD machine - different
motherboards, different memory configurations.

And also in a HVM guest running on an AMD machine. If it runs on Intel
it works just fine.

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