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From: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: "Oliver O'Halloran" <oohall@gmail.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>,
	kexec@lists.infradead.org,
	Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, x86@kernel.org,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 04/13] powerpc: Factor out relocation code from module_64.c to elf_util_64.c.
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 21:53:12 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2306975.WkzT978XXa@hactar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOSf1CGyfz97NLyrfxkHZ3-Hwq7R2ZsN8L3f3=aEjH0zyToz3A@mail.gmail.com>

Am Mittwoch, 24 August 2016, 10:50:26 schrieb Oliver O'Halloran:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> >> zImage on ppc64 BE is an ELF32 file. This patch set only supports
> >> loading
> >> ELF files of the same class as the kernel, so a 64 bit kernel can't
> >> load an ELF32 file. It would be possible to add such support, but it
> >> would be a new feature.
> >> 
> >> The distros I was able to check on ppc64 LE and BE all use vmlinux.
> >> kexec-tools with kexec_load also doesn't support zImage. Do you think
> >> it is important to support zImage?
> > 
> > Well if it didn't work already, I think its low priority. Michael should
> > be able to confirm this. Oliver's been trying to cleanup the zImage to
> > get rid the old zImage limitation, cc'ing him
> 
> I don't think it's ever worked so I wouldn't worry too much about
> supporting it. Fixing kexec-into-zImage and fixing the 32bit wrapper
> on 64bit BE kernel problem has been on my TODO list for a while, but
> it's not a priority.

Ok, thanks for your input.

-- 
[]'s
Thiago Jung Bauermann
IBM Linux Technology Center

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-24  0:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-11 23:08 [PATCH v5 00/13] kexec_file_load implementation for PowerPC Thiago Jung Bauermann
2016-08-11 23:08 ` [PATCH v5 01/13] kexec_file: Allow arch-specific memory walking for kexec_add_buffer Thiago Jung Bauermann
2016-08-13  6:56   ` Balbir Singh
2016-08-11 23:08 ` [PATCH v5 02/13] kexec_file: Change kexec_add_buffer to take kexec_buf as argument Thiago Jung Bauermann
2016-08-15  7:30   ` Balbir Singh
2016-08-15 14:49     ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2016-08-16  6:15       ` Balbir Singh
2016-08-16 18:49         ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2016-08-17  2:04           ` Balbir Singh
2016-08-11 23:08 ` [PATCH v5 03/13] kexec_file: Factor out kexec_locate_mem_hole from kexec_add_buffer Thiago Jung Bauermann
2016-08-11 23:08 ` [PATCH v5 04/13] powerpc: Factor out relocation code from module_64.c to elf_util_64.c Thiago Jung Bauermann
2016-08-15  7:46   ` Balbir Singh
2016-08-15 23:25     ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2016-08-16  6:52       ` Balbir Singh
2016-08-23  3:01         ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2016-08-23  3:21           ` Balbir Singh
2016-08-24  0:50             ` Oliver O'Halloran
2016-08-24  0:53               ` Thiago Jung Bauermann [this message]
2016-08-11 23:08 ` [PATCH v5 05/13] powerpc: Generalize elf64_apply_relocate_add Thiago Jung Bauermann
2016-08-11 23:08 ` [PATCH v5 06/13] powerpc: Adapt elf64_apply_relocate_add for kexec_file_load Thiago Jung Bauermann
2016-08-11 23:08 ` [PATCH v5 07/13] powerpc: Add functions to read ELF files of any endianness Thiago Jung Bauermann
2016-08-11 23:08 ` [PATCH v5 08/13] powerpc: Implement kexec_file_load Thiago Jung Bauermann
2016-08-11 23:08 ` [PATCH v5 09/13] powerpc: Add code to work with device trees in kexec_file_load Thiago Jung Bauermann
2016-08-11 23:08 ` [PATCH v5 10/13] powerpc: Add support for loading ELF kernels with kexec_file_load Thiago Jung Bauermann
2016-08-11 23:08 ` [PATCH v5 11/13] powerpc: Allow userspace to set device tree properties in kexec_file_load Thiago Jung Bauermann
2016-08-12  0:45   ` Samuel Mendoza-Jonas
2016-08-12  0:54     ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2016-08-11 23:08 ` [PATCH v5 12/13] powerpc: Add purgatory for kexec_file_load implementation Thiago Jung Bauermann
2016-08-11 23:08 ` [PATCH v5 13/13] powerpc: Enable CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE in powerpc server defconfigs Thiago Jung Bauermann

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