Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:56:06 +1100 | From | Paul Mackerras <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.28-rc1: NVRAM being corrupted on ppc64 preventing boot (bisected) |
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
> Unless missed something, I think it's narrowed already. When loaded from > yaboot, there is no relevant difference between zImage and vmlinux here. > IE. yaboot parses the ELF header of the zImage itself and ignores the > special notes anyway so only the CAS firmware call is relevant in both > cases, no ?
Good point. However, it would be the parse-elf-header firmware call, rather than the CAS firmware call, since 91a00302 modified the fake_elf structure (to make it consistent with the CAS structure) but not the CAS structure.
Paul.
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