Am Mittwoch, 24 August 2016, 10:50:26 schrieb Oliver O'Halloran: > 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. Ok, thanks for your input. -- []'s Thiago Jung Bauermann IBM Linux Technology Center
