From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Add mktree utility to arch/powerpc/boot
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:26:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1160763982.3941.4.camel@zod.rchland.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <452FBB67.4060509@am.sony.com>
On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 09:14 -0700, Geoff Levand wrote:
> Josh Boyer wrote:
> > + * Makes a tree bootable image for IBM Evaluation boards.
> > + * Basically, just take a zImage, skip the ELF header, and stuff
> > + * a 32 byte header on the front.
>
> I guess you mean on some standard bootloader that comes with
> IBM Evaluation boards? Should this comment reflect that this
> operation is required by that bootloader, not the hardware?
Yes, this is needed for the standard bootloader on some boards.
However, neither the bootloader or the HW are doing what the comment
says. That is what mktree.c itself does, so I think it's correctly
describing what's going on.
BTW, this is simply a copy of the mktree.c that's been in
arch/ppc/boot/simple for years. I'm simply adding it to arch/powerpc in
preparation for some more 4xx merge work to follow.
josh
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-13 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-13 15:07 [PATCH] powerpc: Add mktree utility to arch/powerpc/boot Josh Boyer
2006-10-13 16:14 ` Geoff Levand
2006-10-13 18:25 ` Josh Boyer
2006-10-13 18:26 ` Josh Boyer [this message]
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