On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 19:03 +0200, Joachim Förster wrote: > Note that the default 0x400... is the link address of the zImage > wrapper > rather than the one of THE kernel. > > Currently the link address seems to be hard-coded into > arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper > (a shell script). Since long ago I'm wondering why the maintainers > did > that. But I guess there is a reason, because it wasn't that way in > the > old arch/ppc days ;-) ... > > Is configuring the zImage-piggy-back-loader through menuconfig & co > evil?
Well, not really evil but if you need a special setting for your board, you add a case for that board in the wrapper script. The idea is that the boot wrapper can be build outside of the kernel build tree itself. IE. A distro could (and sometimes do) ship with the standalone boot directory, possibly the .o's already built, and will "wrap" the zImage at install time. Cheers, Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
