Add zero-copy ramdisk support (requires corresponding kernel support!)

[karo-tx-uboot.git] / common / cmd_bootm.c

diff --git a/common/cmd_bootm.c b/common/cmd_bootm.c
index fa32d467ed12cb8b4cb07e5ecb5dcdbebd13725e..af62becf4a9eaa6f6868c08a4aa0c122eaebeb30 100644 (file)
--- a/common/cmd_bootm.c
+++ b/common/cmd_bootm.c
@@ -374,6 +374,7 @@ do_bootm_linux (cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag,
        ulong   cmd_start, cmd_end;
        ulong   initrd_high;
        ulong   data;
+       int     initrd_copy_to_ram = 1;
        char    *cmdline;
        char    *s;
        bd_t    *kbd;
@@ -385,6 +386,8 @@ do_bootm_linux (cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag,
                 * turning the "load high" feature off. This is intentional.
                 */
                initrd_high = simple_strtoul(s, NULL, 16);
+               if (initrd_high == ~0)
+                       initrd_copy_to_ram = 0;
        } else {        /* not set, no restrictions to load high */
                initrd_high = ~0;
        }
@@ -567,6 +570,10 @@ do_bootm_linux (cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag,
        }
 
        if (data) {
+           if (!initrd_copy_to_ram) {  /* zero-copy ramdisk support */
+               initrd_start = data;
+               initrd_end = initrd_start + len;
+           } else {
                initrd_start  = (ulong)kbd - len;
                initrd_start &= ~(4096 - 1);    /* align on page */
 
@@ -621,6 +628,7 @@ do_bootm_linux (cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag,
                memmove ((void *)initrd_start, (void *)data, len);
 #endif /* CONFIG_HW_WATCHDOG || CONFIG_WATCHDOG */
                printf ("OK\n");
+           }
        } else {
                initrd_start = 0;
                initrd_end = 0;