[Cbe-oss-dev] compilation error on ps3 with current git/geoff

[Geoff Levand]

Marvin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Monday 09 June 2008 09:06:16 you wrote:
>> On Sun, 8 Jun 2008, Marvin wrote:
>> > has anyone else problems compiling the geoff/ps3-linux tree? For me, all
>> > files under arch/powerpc/boot are build with -m32. The rest is being
>> > build with -m64 (as it should).
>>
>> That's normal behavior. The boot wrapper is a 32-bit executable, just like
>> arch/powerpc/boot/dtbImage.ps3.
>>
>> Plain vmlinux is a 64-bit executable.
>>
>> So what's the actual compilation error?
> 
> yes, vmlinux is 64-bit, but in the past I used zImage.ps3 for booting (which 
> is 32-bit now). The latter doesn't boot anymore. kexec crashes with segfault. 

zImage.ps3 is not any file created by the current kernel build system.

kexec can only boot a vmlinux, or a stripped vmlinux.

-Geoff