From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755961AbYAGLSJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jan 2008 06:18:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755629AbYAGLRz (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jan 2008 06:17:55 -0500 Received: from 87-194-8-8.bethere.co.uk ([87.194.8.8]:61344 "EHLO kira.home.fluff.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755210AbYAGLRy (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jan 2008 06:17:54 -0500 Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 11:17:51 +0000 From: Ben Dooks To: cksim Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Size of kernel halts startup Message-ID: <20080107111751.GA16087@fluff.org.uk> References: <1199676509.47819c5deaf60@discus.singnet.com.sg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1199676509.47819c5deaf60@discus.singnet.com.sg> X-Disclaimer: These are my own opinions, so there! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 11:28:29AM +0800, cksim wrote: > Hi, > > Yesterday, I have encountered an issue when the kernel size is more than 1.3MB. > > Info on problem encountered as follows: > 1) I am using Atmel AT91SAM9261 part. Circuit similar to that of AT91SAM9261EK > evaluation board. > > 2) I am booting the kernel through NFS. Bootloader > used is UBoot 1.1.5. Kernel used is 2.6.23.1 > > 3) For the past weeks, the kernel size was about 1.3MB and kernel bootup over NFS was fine. > > 4) Yesterday, I have done a menuconfig and turned on some drivers (USB HID and I2C). This resulted in a kernel size of about 1.4MB. > > 5) Booting up this 1.4MB kernel over NFS causes a register dump to appear and the system is halted. > > Is this issue related to the size of the kernel or it is due to some conflict in memory ? > > If it is related to size of kernel, how can the size be increased so as to resolve this issue ? > > Appreciate any help and advises. > > Thanks in advance. > > Sim CK You're best of subscribing to linux-arm-kernel list and asking there as you'll be more likely to find people who are actually using these sorts of systems. -- Ben (ben@fluff.org, http://www.fluff.org/) 'a smiley only costs 4 bytes'