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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: chrp mmu and booting.
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 08:52:06 +0100
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> Yes, you can boot any 32-bit ELF binary from OF.  Yaboot and the zImage
> wrapper for the 64-bit kernel are both 32-bit ELF binaries, so you can
> boot either of these.  Note that you cannot boot a plain PPC64 vmlinux,
> as the OF ELF loader doesn't support 64-bit ELF binaries.

This is OF implementation dependent -- for example, the Apple one will
load 64-bit ELF just fine (iirc).


Segher


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