zImage on mpc5200

[Grant Likely]

On 6/26/07, sarpa <vsarpangala at satline.net> wrote:
>
> I am building the Linux kernel target "zImage.elf" in PPC branch of Linux
> Kernel 2.6.16.11 and then converting it to zImage.bin using OBJCOPY so that
> i can flash it to my PPC based target using BDI. i am currently facing
> issues in booting this kernel using my own bootloader(i am not using
> u-boot). Before I flood mailing list with more detailed questions I just
> wish to know if the standalone kernel image type zImage.elf is know to work
> in Linux kernel 2.6.16.11 or not ? Has anyone ever tested standalone
> zImage.elf on PPC ? Note that I am able to boot uImage using U-boot for this
> kernel but now I am trying to use my own Bootloader to boot zImage.elf "

I can't say about it on the 5200, or on kernel 2.6.16 because I
haven't tried that exact configuration (without u-boot); but
zImage.elf do boot perfectly well without u-boot.  I frequently boot
my virtex platform in that way.

g.

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