[Cbe-oss-dev] [FYI 3/27] ps3: romboot fixup

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Thu Nov 30 05:15:53 EST 2006


On Wednesday 29 November 2006 18:56, Geoff Levand wrote:
> zImage.ps3 will be a 2nd stage kernel, pretty much just a compressed vmlinux,
> that is loaded from storage or network by the 1st stage (kboot) kernel.  This
> image is optional.  One could always just put their final kernel image into flash,
> if it is small enough (about 3.8M), and boot it directly.

If the second stage kernel is just a compressed vmlinux, it may be better
to name it zImage.kexec instead of zImage.ps3, to make clear that the
same make target can also be used on other platforms if they allow kexec.

	Arnd <><



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