[ipxe-devel] initrd alignment

[Michael Brown]

On 28/05/13 19:23, Dave Hansen wrote:
> Should ipxe be page-aligning the initrd?  Nothing _bad_ happens (the
> kernel just rounds the start up to the next page).
>
> I don't see any reference to the boot spec's 'kernel_alignment' in the
> ipxe source anywhere (other than the definition).  Should it be
> respecting that for the initrd?

doc/x86/boot.txt talks about kernel_alignment in terms of the alignment 
required by a relocatable kernel; there's nothing which (to me) suggests 
that it applies to initrd images.

If you change INITRD_ALIGN (in arch/i386/include/initrd.h) from 4 to 
4096, does that fix the problem?

Michael