[Cbe-oss-dev] Boot Loader

Brandon Ros muffinflavored at gmail.com
Mon Feb 16 07:59:14 EST 2009


────────────────────────────── Sony PS3 ────────────────────────────────┐
 │ CONFIG_PPC_PS3:                                                         │
 │                                                                         │
 │ This option enables support for the Sony PS3 game console               │
 │ and other platforms using the PS3 hypervisor.  Enabling this            │
 │ option will allow building otheros.bld, a kernel image suitable         │
 │ for programming into flash memory, and vmlinux, a kernel image          │
 │ suitable for loading via kexec.                                         │
 │                                                                         │
 │ Symbol: PPC_PS3 [=y]                                                    │
 │ Prompt: Sony PS3                                                        │
 │   Defined at arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/Kconfig:1                       │
 │   Depends on: PPC_MULTIPLATFORM && PPC64                                │
 │   Location:                                                             │
 │     -> Platform support                                                 │
 │   Selects: PPC_CELL && USB_ARCH_HAS_OHCI && USB_OHCI_LITTLE_ENDIAN && U │
 │                                                                         │
 ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────( 99%)─

You are one step ahead of me. I did not know that the ability existed
to build an otheros.bld image that is the kernel itself.
How do I build this otheros.bld image that removes the need for kexec?

P.S. Sorry for replying to your e-mail Geoff, I am new to mailing lists.



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