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This time, I'll start by attaching the patch file. Then I'll describe what's in it. (Now I just have to hope I attached the right one... :-) Anyway, I ran into a problem in the copy loop in redboot_linux_exec.c when the length of the kernel was not a multiple of 4. (It surprised me that the kernel length would not be a multiple of 4, but for whatever reason, the end of the particular kernel I was working with that day, with whatever toolchain I was using that day, had a bunch of strings, and they were not padded out to a multiple of 4 length). The copy loop, which decremented the count by 4 every time, ran for a very long time. :-( The other problem that I fixed was that the size of the memory that was reported to my kernel was double what I thought it should be. This confused me tremendously since the comment in the code indicated that it should not double the size when it is already a power of two, but I suspect somebody made a change to 'hal_msbindex()' that didn't get propagated to this function. Finally, this patch also includes my previous patch changing INITRD to INITRD2 as per recent arm kernels. I don't know if this hasn't been included yet because you've been too busy to commit it to CVS, or if you have a philosophical disagreement over whether it should be included or not. If the later, please let me know. --wpd
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