Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:50:34 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] vmlinux.lds.h: allow people to set a smaller rootfs alignment |
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On 06/09/2010 12:42 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > i have no problem changing the default to 4 since it works fine on > Blackfin systems. your analysis of the source alignment also seems > reasonable ... i assume that the 8 byte fields in the source cpio > arent referenced directly, otherwise it'd cause problems on 64bit > systems that require 64bit values to be naturally aligned. > > beyond that, i dont see why any larger alignment values would be > required since this source archive isnt executed directly. it gets > expanded into a ramfs and then freed with the rest of the init stuff. >
We have talked for a long time about incrementally freeing the initramfs as it is decoded, which might help systems which are using most of their memory for an initramfs image...
-hpa
-- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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