On Thursday 07 September 2017 01:49 PM, Sunil Kumar wrote: > $ kexec -e > > As the zImage is also and elf file format, but the control is not > getting transferred to the zImage. > I can see kexec is able to load all the segments properly, but looks > like its not able to figure out the entry point to start execution > with zImage. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > kexec_load: entry = 0x329678 flags = 0x0 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > On the same board (i.e. Freescale p2020ds), uImage and vmlinux works fine. Looking into upstream code: ppc has only support of elf and uImage,and so they work. > > Just curious to know , why the zImage support is still not provided in > the kexec for ppc ?? Probably because no one needed it till now. > Is there any restriction from kexec design point of view ? I do not think. You can write a patch. I see, ppc64 has zImage support, so you can take that as example and can write code for ppc as well. -- Regards Pratyush
