From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel•crashing.org>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman•id.au>
Cc: Donald Zickus <dzickus@redhat•com>,
Justin Forbes <jforbes@redhat•com>,
Bruno Goncalves <bgoncalv@redhat•com>,
Daniel Horak <dhorak@redhat•com>,
Veronika Kabatova <vkabatov@redhat•com>,
linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: ppc64le bzImage and Build_id elf note
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2022 12:36:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220608173627.GO25951@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874k0vgyo6.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au>
On Wed, Jun 08, 2022 at 09:52:25PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> What's the motivation for using the zImage?
You cannot boot a vmlinux from OF directly, with most PowerPC OF
implementations. You *can* boot a zImage directly (with some
trickery sometimes). That is one reason to use zImage, probably not
a very important reason for most people though.
Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-08 17:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-03 13:49 ppc64le bzImage and Build_id elf note Donald Zickus
2022-06-08 11:52 ` Michael Ellerman
2022-06-08 17:36 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2022-06-13 20:34 ` Donald Zickus
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