> On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 12:29 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: > > I'd like to help figure out what the specific problem is, so we can solve > > it properly. > > OK, but how do we start? :) I've CC'd Jakub, who has a tendency to know every corner of this sort of thing. If that alone doesn't do it (;-), next we start with asking about exactly how this vmlinux->bootable conversion is done. (Last time I personally dealt with tftp-booting a Sun, it was a Sun 3/60, but it sounds like maybe things haven't changed much. I guess they have a little, since you're tftp'ing a kernel instead of a stage2 boot loader that does bootparam and nfs.) I looked at arch/sparc64/boot/Makefile, but a) don't know where to find elftoaout and b) you were talking about doing something with the image installed in /boot, which is AFAICT not the a.out format image at all. The "image" target in arch/sparc64/boot/Makefile is a mostly-stripped vmlinux (i.e. ELF). What is it that converts that into an a.out image, and where does that image get stored for booting? I surmise that whatever that procedure is depends on a few ELF symbols (-K sun4u_init -K _end -K _start). I'd like to grok all that more fully before suggesting the best solution. Thanks, Roland _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
