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    linuxboot: fix loading old kernels · 269e2358
    Paolo Bonzini authored
    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 cdebec5e
    
     (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: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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