Subject: Re: ppc64le bzImage and Build_id elf note

From: Segher Boessenkool <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2022 12:36:27 -0500

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