Re: [PATCH v3 06/10] arm64: efi: add EFI stub

From	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v3 06/10] arm64: efi: add EFI stub
Date	2017-02-08 17:40 +0100
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> On 8 Feb 2017, at 16:28, Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org> wrote:
>> 
>> +/*
>> + * EFI entry point for the arm/arm64 EFI stubs.  This is the entrypoint
>> + * that is described in the PE/COFF header.  Most of the code is the same
>> + * for both archictectures, with the arch-specific code provided in the
>> + * handle_kernel_image() function.
>> + */
>> +unsigned long __init efi_entry(void *handle, efi_system_table_t *sys_table,
>> +                              unsigned long *image_addr)
>> +{
> 
> ...
> 
>> +
>> +       status = handle_cmdline_files(sys_table, image, cmdline_ptr,
>> +                                     "initrd=", dram_base + SZ_512M,
>> +                                     (unsigned long *)&initrd_addr,
>> +                                     (unsigned long *)&initrd_size);
> 
> So I know this patch is almost three years old, but why is there a
> 512M limit on the initrd size?
> 

How do you reckon this constitutes a limit?

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Re: [PATCH v3 06/10] arm64: efi: add EFI stub Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> - 2017-02-08 17:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v3 06/10] arm64: efi: add EFI stub Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org> - 2017-02-08 17:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v3 06/10] arm64: efi: add EFI stub Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2017-02-08 18:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v3 06/10] arm64: efi: add EFI stub Jeffrey Hugo <jhugo@codeaurora.org> - 2017-02-08 18:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v3 06/10] arm64: efi: add EFI stub Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> - 2017-02-08 18:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v3 06/10] arm64: efi: add EFI stub Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> - 2017-02-08 18:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v3 06/10] arm64: efi: add EFI stub Jeffrey Hugo <jhugo@codeaurora.org> - 2017-02-08 18:50 +0100

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