[Arm-netbook] Where to load initramfs

[Gordan Bobic]

Well, a good place would be somewhere where it doesn't overlap with the 
kernel image. There are no restrictions on where you need to load it, 
all you need to make sure of is that:

1) No part of the kernel/inirtd end up in the reserved memory area, e.g. 
the GPU allocation

2) Kernel and initrd areas don't overlap (or you'll clobber a part of 
whichever you loaded first.

A calculator that can convert decimal to hex will probably be helpful in 
this when you check the size of your uimage and uinitrd.

Gordan

On 07/10/2012 11:19 AM, Peter Steenbergen wrote:
> Guys,
>
> I am so freaking bad with this HEX -> Binary crap, so need some basic help.
>
> I prepared an initramfs so want's to know where I can load it into
> memory exactly so it will fit? Below my boot.scr;
>
> |setenv console'ttyS0,115200'
> setenv root'/dev/mmcblk0p2'
> setenv panicarg'panic=10'
> setenv extra'rootfstype=ext4 rootwait'
> setenv loglevel'8'
> setenv setargs'setenv bootargs console=${console} root=${root} loglevel=${loglevel} ${panicarg} ${extra}'
> setenv kernel'uImage'|
>
> |setenv initrd'uInitrd'
> setenv boot_mmc'fatload mmc 0 0x43000000 script.bin; fatload mmc 0 0x48000000 ${kernel};|fatload mmc 0 0x???????? ${initrd}; watchdog 0; bootm 0x48000000 0x????????'
>
> |setenv bootcmd'run setargs boot_mmc'|
>
>
> Please help me fill in the question marks
>
> Thx,
> Peter
>
>
>
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