> So 32 bit arm requires kernel + initrd less than 512MB, 64 bit > arm requires kernel + inirrd less than 32GB. If I read the code > correctly, booting x86 in efi mode the max initrd file allocation is 1GB > (0x3fffffff). Seems the code is shared for 32 and 64 bit EFI and doesn't > allow anything more on 64 bit than 32 bit. Of course no normal system > would ever need more so no point implementing it. > > A 1GB ramdisk would be plenty to start a system that could then load more > ramdisks if it really wanted to. Could any sensible use case exist for > loading an initrd that large?
I agree. I don't think that implementing support of > 1GiB ramdisk makes sense unless we have a usecase in mind. Original reporter: can you please ellaborate why you need such a large ramdisk and why you can't let kernel mount additional images? _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
