From: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
To: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: 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>,
"Oliver O'Halloran" <oohall@gmail.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 13:21:04 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <239172a5-1952-de2d-e48d-4ca7d882356c@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4586138.sszncvQpYx@hactar>
> 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
Balbir Singh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-23 3:21 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 [this message]
2016-08-24 0:50 ` Oliver O'Halloran
2016-08-24 0:53 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
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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