From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 35962DDE43 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 07:44:12 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <45CCDD16.1020807@gmx.de> Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:44:06 +0100 From: Sebastian Heutling MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bob Brose Subject: Re: 2.6.20 zImage.prep?? References: <20070209180755.26640.qmail@kunk.qbjnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20070209180755.26640.qmail@kunk.qbjnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , I can only tell you that it works for 2.6.18 using the debian linux image package. But you need to install linux-image-2.6.18-prep instead of linux-image-2.6.18-powerpc. Sebastian Bob Brose wrote: > Is PReP currently suported? The last kernel version I could make a > zImage.prep in was 2.6.14. I see some references to PReP and new > kernels here but nothing I'd call definitive. > > >From digging around the net it looks like one is supposed to use > mkvmlinuz to do this now however: > > 1) The utilities mkprep, mktree and mkbugboot aren't build be default > in 2.6.20 from what I can see and > > 2) Even when I build them and try mkvmlinuz there are errors: > debian:/usr/src/linux# mkvmlinuz -v -o vmlinuz.prep -a prep -k vmlinux -r 2.4.20 > === Building for sub-architecture prep. > === Using kernel image file vmlinux. > === Release version seems to be 2.4.20. > === Using object files from /usr/src/linux. > === Building a bootable compressed kernel image in vmlinuz.prep. > === Doing build in /tmp/tmp.kTUDZ23437. > === Creating compressed kernel image vmlinux.gz... > objcopy -O binary vmlinux /tmp/tmp.kTUDZ23437/vmlinux > gzip /tmp/tmp.kTUDZ23437/vmlinux > === Putting everything into ELF image file image.o... > objcopy -R .comment /tmp/tmp.kTUDZ23437/image.o > objcopy: '/tmp/tmp.kTUDZ23437/image.o': No such file > objcopy: error: the input file '/tmp/tmp.kTUDZ23437/image.o' is empty > objcopy /tmp/tmp.kTUDZ23437/image.o /tmp/tmp.kTUDZ23437/image.o --add-section=.image=/tmp/tmp.kTUDZ23437/vmlinux.gz --set-section-flags=.image=contents,alloc,load,readonly,data > objcopy: '/tmp/tmp.kTUDZ23437/image.o': No such file > objcopy: error: the input file '/tmp/tmp.kTUDZ23437/image.o' is empty > === Creating bootable kernel image file vmlinuz.prep... > Sorry, I do not know how to handle PowerPC sub-architecture prep in version 2.4.20. > > This is debian sid. If I try the mkvmlinuz command for chrp it works fine. > > Regards, > Bob > _______________________________________________ > Linuxppc-dev mailing list > Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org > https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev >