From: Herman Rimm Date: Mon, Sep 16 2024 19:24:02 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Configure Raspberry Pis to reserve 50 MB for linux kernels. --- The 6.9 and newer linux-libre-arm64-generic kernels for Guix can be larger than the allocated 36 MB. This patch is not submitted upstream. diff --git a/board/raspberrypi/rpi/rpi.env b/board/raspberrypi/rpi/rpi.env index 30228285edd..666883e9212 100644 --- a/board/raspberrypi/rpi/rpi.env +++ b/board/raspberrypi/rpi/rpi.env @@ -43,22 +43,22 @@ dfu_alt_info+=zImage fat 0 1 * text_offset bytes (specified in the header of the Image) into a 2MB * boundary. The 'booti' command relocates the image if necessary. Linux uses * a default text_offset of 0x80000. In summary, loading at 0x80000 - * satisfies all these constraints and reserving memory up to 0x02400000 - * permits fairly large (roughly 36M) kernels. + * satisfies all these constraints and reserving memory up to 0x03400000 + * permits fairly large (roughly 50M) kernels. * * scriptaddr and pxefile_addr_r can be pretty much anywhere that doesn't * conflict with something else. Reserving 1M for each of them at - * 0x02400000-0x02500000 and 0x02500000-0x02600000 should be plenty. + * 0x03200000-0x03300000 and 0x03300000-0x03400000 should be plenty. * * On ARM, both the DTB and any possible initrd must be loaded such that they * fit inside the lowmem mapping in Linux. In practice, this usually means not * more than ~700M away from the start of the kernel image but this number can * be larger OR smaller depending on e.g. the 'vmalloc=xxxM' command line * parameter given to the kernel. So reserving memory from low to high - * satisfies this constraint again. Reserving 1M at 0x02600000-0x02700000 for - * the DTB leaves rest of the free RAM to the initrd starting at 0x02700000. + * satisfies this constraint again. Reserving 1M at 0x03400000-0x03500000 for + * the DTB leaves rest of the free RAM to the initrd starting at 0x03500000. * Even with the smallest possible CPU-GPU memory split of the CPU getting - * only 64M, the remaining 25M starting at 0x02700000 should allow quite + * only 64M, the remaining 11M starting at 0x03500000 should allow quite * large initrds before they start colliding with U-Boot. */ #ifdef CONFIG_ARM64 @@ -69,9 +69,9 @@ fdt_high=ffffffff initrd_high=ffffffff #endif kernel_addr_r=0x00080000 -scriptaddr=0x02400000 -pxefile_addr_r=0x02500000 -fdt_addr_r=0x02600000 -ramdisk_addr_r=0x02700000 +scriptaddr=0x03200000 +pxefile_addr_r=0x03300000 +fdt_addr_r=0x03400000 +ramdisk_addr_r=0x03500000 boot_targets=mmc usb pxe dhcp