Re: [parisc-linux] Creating a bootable image.

[Philipp Rumpf <prumpf@suse.de>]

> I'm mailing this because I'm not entirely sure what I'm doing is correct.

Neither am I, but arch/parisc/hp/boot/README seems to say something different.

> The way I understand it, the kernel we cross compile on Linux is in fact
> a broken ELF32 file, which doesn't really matter, because at this point we
> don't need the kernel to have any loader information itself. 

I think we should build a binary image of the kernel (that is not ELF) like
we do for x86.

> However, to actually boot you need IPL, which requires SOM linking, so
> that much must be done on HPUX.

This I do not understand. According to arch/parisc/hp/boot/README, the IPL is
stored in a special binary format which we could generate from ELF like we
do for the kernel image.

> and it'll create a kernel and boot header that should just boot right
> away.  That way to do kernel work (and not bootstrap work), you don't need
> HPUX at all.

I think the vast majority of parisc boxes runs HP-UX at the moment so it
probably would not be a big win.

	Philipp Rumpf