Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 04/13] powerpc: Factor out relocation code from module_64.c to elf_util_64.c. | From | Balbir Singh <> | Date | Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:21:04 +1000 |
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> 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
Balbir Singh
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