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

[Geoff Levand]

Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I had been considering that.  I need to better understand how the
kexec/kboot chaining works to be able to say if what is needed for this
platform is indeed generic.  There is compatibility with the existing
bootloader (2.6.16 based) to be considered I think.

-Geoff