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From: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am•sony.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb•de>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org, cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs•org,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de•ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [POWERPC 7/9] ps3: add a default zImage target
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:59:41 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <456B89FD.5000007@am.sony.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061127182431.436201000@arndb.de>

Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> It's currently not possible to build the default zImage
> target if PS3 is the only selected platform. This is
> a hack to fall back to building the pseries style
> zImage, so the build is successful. This will probably
> change in the future, if someone writes a PS3 specific
> boot wrapper.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de•ibm.com>
> Index: linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile
> +++ linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile
> @@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ $(obj)/uImage: vmlinux $(wrapperbits)
>  image-$(CONFIG_PPC_PSERIES)		+= zImage.pseries
>  image-$(CONFIG_PPC_MAPLE)		+= zImage.pseries
>  image-$(CONFIG_PPC_IBM_CELL_BLADE)	+= zImage.pseries
> +image-$(CONFIG_PPC_PS3)			+= zImage.pseries
>  image-$(CONFIG_PPC_CHRP)		+= zImage.chrp
>  image-$(CONFIG_PPC_PMAC)		+= zImage.pmac
>  image-$(CONFIG_DEFAULT_UIMAGE)		+= uImage

A better solution here is to make image-$(CONFIG_PPC_PS3) a stripped
vmlinux, which the current PS3 bootloader (2.6.16 kboot) will be able
to load.

I'll set that up and send out a new patch.

I started work on that zImage bootwrapper, but I have other items I'm
tring to finish up.

-Geoff

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-28  0:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-27 18:18 [POWERPC 0/9] cell bug fixes for 2.6.20 Arnd Bergmann
2006-11-27 18:18 ` [POWERPC 1/9] spufs: return an error in spu_create is isolated create isnt supported Arnd Bergmann
2006-11-27 18:18 ` [POWERPC 2/9] spufs: always send sigtrap on breakpoint Arnd Bergmann
2006-11-28  0:12   ` Luke Browning
2006-11-28  0:29     ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-11-27 18:18 ` [POWERPC 3/9] spufs: we should only execute init_spu_base on cell Arnd Bergmann
2006-11-27 18:18 ` [POWERPC 4/9] cell: fix building without spufs Arnd Bergmann
2006-11-27 18:18 ` [POWERPC 5/9] ps3: Missed renames of CONFIG_PS3 to CONFIG_PPC_PS3 Arnd Bergmann
2006-11-28  0:40   ` Geoff Levand
2006-11-27 18:18 ` [POWERPC 6/9] ps3: multiplatform build fixes Arnd Bergmann
2006-11-28 21:05   ` [Cbe-oss-dev] " Geoff Levand
2006-11-27 18:18 ` [POWERPC 7/9] ps3: add a default zImage target Arnd Bergmann
2006-11-28  0:59   ` Geoff Levand [this message]
2006-11-27 18:18 ` [POWERPC 8/9] fix missing #include in sys_ppc32.c Arnd Bergmann
2006-11-27 18:19 ` [POWERPC 9/9] fix building without PCI Arnd Bergmann

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