Re: efiboot failed to load kernel on 10.0_RC6

[Rui-Xiang Guo <rxg%lavabit.com@localhost>]

On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 08:55:41AM -0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
> rxg%lavabit.com@localhost (Rui-Xiang Guo) writes:
> 
> >I attempted to add LCD panel support for licheepi-zero u-boot, but it caused
> >the boot error:
> >booting netbsd - starting in 0 seconds.
> >Failed to allocate 34339740 bytes for kernel image (error 2147483662)
> 
> >What does this status mean?
> 
> Probably not much. 2147483662 = 0x8000000E = EFIERR(14) = EFI_NOT_FOUND.
> This is the result of an EFI AllocPages call.
> 
> However, 34339740 bytes might be difficult to allocate on a system 
> that, according to https://wiki.sipeed.com/hardware/en/lichee/Zero/Zero.html,
> has only 64MB of DRAM.
> 
> I'm not sure why that much memory is required. Does your LCD panel support
> use some huge static variables, e.g. as a framebuffer ? Do you try to
> load a kernel with debug symbols ?

It used sunxi de2. I will try to reduce the kernel size and test it on 10.

Thanks,
-rxg