Re: relocatable kernel vs. yaboot

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

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On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 08:33 +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:

> Yes, yaboot needs to be fixed.

Yeah, my bad, I was offline when writing this and only checked later to
find you'd already discussed that. Sorry.

> > Modifying the vmlinux in the same way as above makes yaboot take it, and
> > I can easily make this part of my installation procedure, but I wonder
> > if it should be done automatically? Or maybe only documented in the
> > Kconfig help text? I probably wouldn't have enabled it and then wondered
> > why it doesn't work if it had warned me about breaking yaboot ;)
> 
> Yes, we could add something to the help text.  Until yaboot gets
> fixed, you could either boot the zImage with yaboot or use that
> iseries hack.

I can send a patch if you want?

> Why did you enable it?  Just to try it out?  The main reason for
> having it turned on is if you want to have a single kernel image that
> can be used both as a normal kernel and a kdump kernel.

Yeah, no particular reason, just enabled it on a whim when oldconfig
asked.

johannes

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