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From: "tiejun.chen" <tiejun.chen@windriver.com>
To: Guillaume Dargaud <dargaud@lpsc.in2p3.fr>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Generating elf kernel ?
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:08:33 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C8F49A1.9050008@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201009141053.11946.dargaud@lpsc.in2p3.fr>

Guillaume Dargaud wrote:
> Hello all,
> In the past I've been using the PPC architecture to generate elf kernels (I 
> wrote my own bootloader):
> $ file zImage.elf 
> zImage.elf: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, PowerPC or cisco 4500, version 1 
> (SYSV), statically linked, not stripped
> 
> I'm now trying to change to the PowerPC architecture, but the generated kernel 
> is different and won't load:
> $ file zImage
> zImage: u-boot/PPCBoot image
> 
> How do I generate an elf file ?

Try simpleImage/dtbImage. But you have to check if there is a file,
arch/powerpc/boot/<platform>.c.

For more detail on this please refer to Documentation/powerpc/bootwrapper.txt.

> For what it's worth, I use the Xilinx-patched kernel and I load it to a flash 
> mem using impact.

Which bootloader? Looks you want to run it as XIP.

Tiejun

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-14 10:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-14  8:53 Generating elf kernel ? Guillaume Dargaud
2010-09-14 10:08 ` tiejun.chen [this message]
2010-09-14 11:27   ` Guillaume Dargaud
2010-09-14 12:57 ` Baurzhan Ismagulov
2010-09-15  8:07   ` Guillaume Dargaud
2010-09-15  8:27     ` tiejun.chen
2010-09-15 14:51       ` Guillaume Dargaud
2010-09-16  3:02         ` tiejun.chen
2010-09-16  7:25           ` Guillaume Dargaud
2010-09-16  7:51             ` tiejun.chen
2010-09-17  9:27               ` Initial kernel command string (Was: Generating elf kernel ?) Guillaume Dargaud
2010-09-17  9:46                 ` tiejun.chen
2010-09-20  7:21                   ` Guillaume Dargaud
2010-09-20  8:10                     ` tiejun.chen
2010-09-15 16:49       ` Generating elf kernel ? Scott Wood
2010-09-16  2:37         ` tiejun.chen
2010-09-16 17:09           ` Scott Wood
2010-09-17  1:58             ` tiejun.chen
2010-09-17 17:44               ` Scott Wood
2010-09-19  1:40                 ` tiejun.chen
2010-09-20 15:43                   ` Scott Wood
2010-09-21  1:00                     ` Chen, Tiejun
2010-09-21 17:00                       ` Scott Wood
2010-09-21 23:35                         ` Chen, Tiejun

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