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To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Subject: Re: ppc64le bzImage and Build_id elf note
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On Wed, Jun 08, 2022 at 09:52:25PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> What's the motivation for using the zImage?

You cannot boot a vmlinux from OF directly, with most PowerPC OF
implementations.  You *can* boot a zImage directly (with some
trickery sometimes).  That is one reason to use zImage, probably not
a very important reason for most people though.


Segher