From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.suse.de (cantor.suse.de [195.135.220.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mx1.suse.de", Issuer "Thawte Premium Server CA" (verified OK)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 264886877F for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 10:16:48 +1100 (EST) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 00:16:43 +0100 From: Olaf Hering To: Paul Mackerras Message-ID: <20051118231643.GA14601@suse.de> References: <17277.28534.614112.962810@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20051118075158.GB14865@suse.de> <20051118221309.GA12724@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 In-Reply-To: <20051118221309.GA12724@suse.de> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] generate COFF zImage in arch/powerpc/boot List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, Nov 18, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Fri, Nov 18, Olaf Hering wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 18, Paul Mackeras wrote: > > > > > > > +++ merge-hack/arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds 2005-11-16 23:16:48.000000000 +1100 > > > > This change makes arch/powerpc/boot/README obsolete. > > Last time I looked, the COFF loader liked only .text, .data and .bss. > > But maybe hack-coff needs some tweaking to modify also other sections. > > I tried to keep the kernel in its own section. But the firmware does not > fully setup the memory range for that section. claim and map calls for > that area are not enough. After using your new version of claim, I found that the section is not copied. It contains only sequences of ff0fffff fff0ff0f. -- short story of a lazy sysadmin: alias appserv=wotan