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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2006-06-26 13:56:25 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-06-26 10:48:15 -0700 |
| commit | 3c5846470c30580bbcb4d5f2339f75a2c88cfe6e (patch) | |
| tree | 1aa3622ede1d72be42ab6707a79cf1ab033ffc87 /arch | |
| parent | 0c90bb87730613709e65c03c86d614e31a675d4f (diff) | |
| download | linux-3c5846470c30580bbcb4d5f2339f75a2c88cfe6e.tar.gz | |
[PATCH] x86_64: x86_64-enable-large-bzImage.patch
enable large bzImages on x86_64. (fix is from x86's build.c) Using this
patch i have successfully built and booted an allyesconfig 13MB+ bzImage
on x86_64 too:
$ size64 vmlinux
text data bss dec hex filename
23444831 8202642 3439360 35086833 21761f1 vmlinux
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mingo mingo 13121740 Apr 19 09:32 arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86_64/boot/tools/build.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86_64/boot/tools/build.c b/arch/x86_64/boot/tools/build.c index c44f5e2ec1006..eae86691709a2 100644 --- a/arch/x86_64/boot/tools/build.c +++ b/arch/x86_64/boot/tools/build.c @@ -149,10 +149,8 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) sz = sb.st_size; fprintf (stderr, "System is %d kB\n", sz/1024); sys_size = (sz + 15) / 16; - /* 0x40000*16 = 4.0 MB, reasonable estimate for the current maximum */ - if (sys_size > (is_big_kernel ? 0x40000 : DEF_SYSSIZE)) - die("System is too big. Try using %smodules.", - is_big_kernel ? "" : "bzImage or "); + if (!is_big_kernel && sys_size > DEF_SYSSIZE) + die("System is too big. Try using bzImage or modules."); while (sz > 0) { int l, n; |