chrp mmu and booting.

[Segher Boessenkool]

> Yes, you can boot any 32-bit ELF binary from OF.  Yaboot and the zImage
> wrapper for the 64-bit kernel are both 32-bit ELF binaries, so you can
> boot either of these.  Note that you cannot boot a plain PPC64 vmlinux,
> as the OF ELF loader doesn't support 64-bit ELF binaries.

This is OF implementation dependent -- for example, the Apple one will
load 64-bit ELF just fine (iirc).


Segher


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