Mike Smith wrote:
> > > That was it. Is the 4MB kernel size limit documented anywhere?
> >
> > I don't know :-) I luckily noticed this by a lot of trials.
>
> I'm not aware of any 4MB limit on kernel size (and I ought to be if there
> is one 8). Can you run the details past me? (I've regularly booted much
> larger kernels in the past...)
Uhh, are you sure? Ignore the size of the file, what does 'size(1)' say
about these large kernels? Does text+data+bss excede 4MB? I have a
nagging suspicion that we only set up 4MB of page tables during the early
part of the bootstrap process in locore.s. (forgive me for not looking,
I have a most evil headache and locore.s is no way to improve it :-).
Thinking about it some more, there may be a 3MB limit as we load above
1MB. I recall some heavy magic with the SMP bootstrap where we only use one
PTD slot for 0-4MB in early boot....
Cheers,
-Peter
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