[Cbe-oss-dev] Problems booting PS3 kernel

[Geoff Levand]

Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> On 21/04/2007, at 18:34, Geoff Levand wrote:
>> Using vmlinux.strip is just for convenience during development, as
>> it is smaller so faster to load, especially over a network.  You
>> can also use vmlinux, which may be installed with 'make rpm-pkg'.
>>
>>    42M vmlinux
>>   5.1M vmlinux.strip
>>
>> I would think you can make a change to scripts/package/mkspec to have
>> it install either if you desire.
> 
> The thing is I was using the RPM generated by rpm-pkg (not vmlinux  
> directly), and it eventually (at some rebuild) broke.  It looks like  
> as if the file installed by the RPM comes from a different binary  
> file...  (but after a quick look to the build scripts, I can't tell  
> why).

It is difficult for me to say, as I don't use rpm-pkg.  I tried it,
but it seems to need some setup which I don't want to do.  If you
can post the error messages maybe someone will be able to comment.

-Geoff