On K, 2009-06-24 at 17:54 +0200, Peter Stuge wrote: > Harald Gutmann wrote: > > What do I need except a kernel image which has all drivers > > compilled in? > > What needs to be done to get this setup working? > > Two ways: > > 1. Use mkelfImage to get a payload from vmlinux > See http://www.coreboot.org/Mkelfimage for download info. > > mkelfImage -t vmlinux-i386 --kernel=~/linux-version/vmlinux > --output=~/linux.elf > > ~/linux.elf is your payload. Add ramdisk if you like. > > > 2. Try using vmlinux as payload directly, it might work, we don't know > > It would be interesting to know if vmlinux+initramfs works: > http://www.coreboot.org/Initramfs > > > Note that you always want to use the uncompressed vmlinux to start > with, and enable payload LZMA compression. LZMA compresses better > than the in-kernel compression used for bzImage.
I suppose packing twice with LZMA would make no sense either? Having in mind that linux-2.6.30 supports LZMA for bzImage. So kernel code would be packed twice, and the highmem kernel loader in bzImage once for payload. Waste of decompression time I bet myself without testing. And thanks - good point about using vmlinux, I hadn't thought of that before reading this thread. Regards, Mart Raudsepp -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
