Paolo Bonzini 269e235849 linuxboot: fix loading old kernels ...

Old kernels that used high memory only allowed the initrd to be in the
first 896MB of memory.  If you load the initrd above, they complain
that "initrd extends beyond end of memory".

In order to fix this, while not breaking machines with small amounts
of memory fixed by cdebec5 (linuxboot: compute initrd loading address,
2014-10-06), we need to distinguish two cases.  If pc.c placed the
initrd at end of memory, use the new algorithm based on the e801
memory map.  If instead pc.c placed the initrd at the maximum address
specified by the bzImage, leave it there.

The only interesting part is that the low-memory info block is now
loaded very early, in real mode, and thus the 32-bit address has
to be converted into a real mode segment.  The initrd address is
also patched in the info block before entering real mode, it is
simpler that way.

This fixes booting the RHEL4.8 32-bit installation image with 1GB
of RAM.

Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Cc: mst@redhat.com
Cc: jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

2014-12-15 12:21:03 +01:00

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