Subject: Re: First cut of "wrapper" program

From: Simon Richter <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:03:19 +0200

Hi,

Paul Mackerras wrote:

> Here is a prototype of a "wrapper" program which will take a kernel,
> and optionally an initrd image and/or a device tree blob, and create a
> bootable zImage.  My idea is that the Makefile in arch/powerpc/boot
> will construct the files that this needs, then run it one or more
> times to create whatever images are needed.

Hmm, in Debian there is a tool called mkvmlinuz that does this, which is
run in a hook script after generating an initrd.

   Simon