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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] RISC-V: load initrd wherever it fits into memory
To:     Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc:     Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>,
        Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>,
        linux-efi <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
        linux-riscv <linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org>,
        "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>,
        Atish Patra <atishp@atishpatra.org>,
        Heinrich Schuchardt <heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com>
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From:   Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
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Date:   Tue, 20 Jul 2021 17:00:21 +0200
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On 7/9/21 7:14 PM, Atish Patra wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 12:07 PM Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> w=
rote:
>>
>> On Jun 29 2021, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
>>
>>> Requiring that initrd is loaded below RAM start + 256 MiB led to failu=
re
>>> to boot SUSE Linux with GRUB on QEMU, cf.
>>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2021-06/msg00037.html
>>>
>>> Remove the constraint.
>>>
>>> Reported-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
>>> Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
>>
>> With that patch the image in
>> http://download.opensuse.org/ports/riscv/tumbleweed/iso/ work again.
>>
>
> Thanks.
> @palmer: Can you take this one in this cycle ?

@Palmer, Paul, Albert
Ard suggested to move this patch through linux-riscv. Could you please
review the patch available at

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20210629134018.62859-1-xypron.glpk@gmx=
.de/

The patch is necessary to boot on QEMU with GRUB with large initrd.

Best regards

Heinrich

>
>> Andreas.
>>
>> --
>> Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org
>> GPG Key fingerprint =3D 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510  2552 DF73 E780 A9DA A=
EC1
>> "And now for something completely different."
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