On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Balbir Singh <bsingharora at gmail.com> wrote: > >> zImage on ppc64 BE is an ELF32 file. This patch set only supports loading >> ELF files of the same class as the kernel, so a 64 bit kernel can't load an >> ELF32 file. It would be possible to add such support, but it would be a new >> feature. >> >> The distros I was able to check on ppc64 LE and BE all use vmlinux. >> kexec-tools with kexec_load also doesn't support zImage. Do you think it is >> important to support zImage? > > Well if it didn't work already, I think its low priority. Michael should be > able to confirm this. Oliver's been trying to cleanup the zImage to get rid > the old zImage limitation, cc'ing him I don't think it's ever worked so I wouldn't worry too much about supporting it. Fixing kexec-into-zImage and fixing the 32bit wrapper on 64bit BE kernel problem has been on my TODO list for a while, but it's not a priority. oliver
