From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: "Xiaogeng (Shawn) Jin" Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: vmlinx and ppcboot From: Wolfgang Denk Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 10 Jan 2003 16:05:42 PST." <3E1F5FD6.4080107@redswitch.com> Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 01:19:00 +0100 Message-Id: <20030111001905.BA07DC608E@atlas.denx.de> Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: In message <3E1F5FD6.4080107@redswitch.com> you wrote: > > If I has ppcboot working and has a vmlinux.gz, do I need any other > working boot code from the kernel tree? I mean, if my making a linux No. > kernel image 'make zImage' fails at the last step (building a zvmlinux), > is the vmlinux.gz image built valid for ppcboot to boot the kernel? No. PPCBoot does not accept a vmlinux.gz image. It requieres an image created by the mkimage tool. See the README that comes with PPCBoot. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd@denx.de Even if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the per- son who has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably put parens in the wrong place. - Larry Wall in the perl man page ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/