[Cbe-oss-dev] Problems booting PS3 kernel

[Uytterhoeven, Geert]

	Hi Julio,

On April 18, 2007, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> Whenever I try to boot a kernel built from the ps3-linux branch (up- 
> to-date sources), I get the following messages:
> 
> kboot: testing
> get memory ranges:1
> Invalid memory segment 0x800000 - 0x9fdfff
> get memory ranges:1
> Invalid memory segment 0x800000 - 0x9fdfff
> Segmentation fault
> kboot:
> 
> This has been happening for several days already, although I don't  
> know exactly when it started to happen.  The last working kernel I  
> have was built on March 30th.
> 
> I'm not sure if the following has anything to do, but note 
> that newer  
> kernels show a different string:
> 
> ps3:~> file /boot/vmlinuz*
> /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-rc5-20070330: ELF 64-bit MSB executable, cisco  
> 7500, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, stripped
> /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-rc7-20070418: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, 
> PowerPC  
> or cisco 4500, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, not stripped

Before you had to boot arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.ps3.
Now you have to use vmlinux.strip instead:

| $ file arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.ps3 vmlinux.strip
| arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.ps3: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, PowerPC or cisco 4500, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, not stripped
| vmlinux.strip:                ELF 64-bit MSB executable, cisco 7500, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, stripped

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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