On Thursday 07 September 2017 01:49 PM, Sunil Kumar wrote:
$ kexec -e

As the zImage is also and elf file format, but the control is not
getting transferred to the zImage.
I can see kexec is able to load all the segments properly, but looks
like its not able to figure out the entry point to start execution
with zImage.
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kexec_load: entry = 0x329678 flags = 0x0
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On the same board (i.e. Freescale p2020ds), uImage and vmlinux works fine.

Looking into upstream code: ppc has only support of elf and uImage,and so they work.


Just curious to know , why the zImage support is still not provided in
the kexec for ppc ??

Probably because no one needed it till now.

Is there any restriction from kexec design point of view ?

I do not think. You can write a patch. I see, ppc64 has zImage support, so you can take that as example and can write code for ppc as well.

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Regards
Pratyush

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