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From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/15] bootwrapper: attach an empty vmlinux
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:03:45 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070924040345.GL8058@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <boot-8-13.miltonm@bga.com>

On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 06:06:38PM -0500, Milton Miller wrote:
> Allow the boot wrapper code to be linked without an attached vmlinux.
> 
> Rather than invent a new syntax to invoke the wrapper, attach the
> stripped version of empty.o, which produces the same result.

Aiee.  Please don't do that.  Add a new wrapper option so the vmlinux
is optional instead.  

Particularly since...
> Index: kernel/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper
> ===================================================================
> --- kernel.orig/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper	2007-09-17 22:11:51.000000000 -0500
> +++ kernel/arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper	2007-09-17 22:12:05.000000000 -0500
> @@ -161,6 +161,13 @@ ps3)
>      ;;
>  esac
>  
> +if [ "$kernel" = $object/empty.o ] ; then
> +    ext=bin
> +    objflags="-O binary"
> +    gzip=
> +fi

Making the vmlinux empty.o *isn't* just a matter of doing that but
also has other side effects as above.

-- 
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				| _way_ _around_!
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-24  4:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-21 23:02 [PATCH 0/15] bootwrapper: kexec and external payloads Milton Miller
2007-09-21 23:03 ` [PATCH 1/15] boot: find initrd location from device-tree Milton Miller
2007-09-24  2:58   ` David Gibson
2007-09-24  5:50     ` Rob Landley
2007-09-24  8:02     ` Milton Miller
2007-09-25  3:27       ` David Gibson
2007-09-26  5:49         ` Milton Miller
2007-09-21 23:03 ` [PATCH 2/15] boot: record header bytes in gunzip_start Milton Miller
2007-09-24  2:59   ` David Gibson
2007-09-21 23:03 ` [PATCH 3/15] boot: simplfy gunzip_finish Milton Miller
2007-09-21 23:03 ` [PATCH 4/15] bootwrapper: smp support code Milton Miller
2007-09-21 23:04 ` [PATCH 5/15] bootwrapper: occuppied memory ranges Milton Miller
2007-09-24  3:09   ` David Gibson
2007-09-24  9:33     ` Milton Miller
2007-09-21 23:04 ` [PATCH 6/15] bootwrapper: help for 64 bit cpus Milton Miller
2007-09-24  3:14   ` David Gibson
2007-09-21 23:04 ` [PATCH 7/15] bootwrapper: Add kexec callable zImage wrapper Milton Miller
2007-09-24  3:23   ` David Gibson
2007-09-21 23:05 ` [PATCH 8/15] bootwrapper: convert flatdevtree to version 16 Milton Miller
2007-09-24  3:36   ` David Gibson
2007-09-24  6:54     ` Milton Miller
2007-09-25  3:46       ` David Gibson
2007-09-26 16:19         ` Milton Miller
2007-09-27  2:45           ` David Gibson
2007-09-27 15:44             ` Milton Miller
2007-09-28  2:40               ` David Gibson
2007-09-28 15:16                 ` Milton Miller
2007-10-03  5:29                   ` David Gibson
2007-09-21 23:05 ` [PATCH 9/15] bootwrapper: rtas support Milton Miller
2007-09-24  3:46   ` David Gibson
2007-09-21 23:05 ` [PATCH 10/15] bootwrapper: add cpio file extraction library Milton Miller
2007-09-21 23:06 ` [PATCH 11/15] bootwrapper: allow vmlinuz to be an external payload Milton Miller
2007-09-21 23:06 ` [PATCH 12/15] bootwrapper: kexec extract vmlinux from initramfs Milton Miller
2007-09-21 23:06 ` [PATCH 13/15] bootwrapper: attach an empty vmlinux Milton Miller
2007-09-24  4:03   ` David Gibson [this message]
2007-09-21 23:08 ` [PATCH 14/15] boot: add a hook to start cpus Milton Miller
2007-09-21 23:08 ` [PATCH 15/15] bootwrapper: recheck for command line after fixups Milton Miller
2007-09-21 23:08 ` [PATCH 1/2] qemu platform, v2 Milton Miller
2007-09-22  9:55   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-22 19:16     ` Rob Landley
2007-09-23  4:27       ` Paul Mackerras
2007-09-23 22:01         ` Rob Landley
2007-09-28 16:53         ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-09-28 20:14           ` Rob Landley
2007-10-01  5:33           ` David Gibson
2007-10-17 20:28             ` Grant Likely
2007-10-17 23:09               ` Rob Landley
2007-10-18  9:59               ` Matt Sealey
2007-10-18 17:19                 ` Milton Miller
2007-10-18 17:29                   ` Grant Likely
2007-10-19  6:28                     ` Rob Landley
2007-09-24  4:00     ` David Gibson
2007-09-24  7:46       ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-24  9:48         ` Milton Miller
2007-09-21 23:08 ` [PATCH 2/2] qemu platform rom, v2 Milton Miller
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-07-10 22:07 [PATCH 0/15] bootwrapper: support for kexec to zImage Milton Miller
2007-07-10 22:12 ` [PATCH 13/15] bootwrapper: attach an empty vmlinux Milton Miller

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