linux kernel for ppc as elf relocatable

linux kernel for ppc as elf relocatable

[mihaela elena grigore]

Can somebody help me with a few indications regarding how to obtain a 
relocatable vmlinux when compiling the linux kernel for ppc32 ?

For powerpc, by default, the building process results in an ELF 32-bit 
MSB executable statically linked. I saw that for other architectures it 
builds, by default, a relocatable elf file.

Why is it statically linked for some architectures and relocatable for 
others ? How to make it relocatable for ppc32? I assume that changing 
LDFLAGS_vmlinux to '-r' in the Makefile for ppc is not enough... (i'm 
using 2.6.11)

p.s. any comments/answers to my posting, please add me in CC, as i 
didn't subscribe, thank you.

Re: linux kernel for ppc as elf relocatable

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <488E1134.6010109@criticalsoftware.com> you wrote:
> Can somebody help me with a few indications regarding how to obtain a 
> relocatable vmlinux when compiling the linux kernel for ppc32 ?

Why exactly would you want to do that?

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Re: linux kernel for ppc as elf relocatable

[Kumar Gala]

On Jul 29, 2008, at 5:17 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

> In message <488E1134.6010109@criticalsoftware.com> you wrote:
>> Can somebody help me with a few indications regarding how to obtain a
>> relocatable vmlinux when compiling the linux kernel for ppc32 ?
>
> Why exactly would you want to do that?

Any for what specific ppc32 sub-arch do you want to do this for?

- k