[PATCH 1/2] ppc64: zimage build fix

[Geoff Levand]

Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Sorry I didn't comment on this earlier.
> 
> I don't know about others, but I have a bunch of scripts and so on that
> expect 
> a pSeries build to produce a "zImage" - all of which would have to be
> changed 
> to cope with this patch.
> 
> On the other hand I don't have any scripts that expect a G5 build to
> produce a 
> zImage.
> 
> So it would seem more logical to me leave zImage as is, and create a new
> zImage.g5 or zImage.realmode or whatever you want to call it.
> 

Yes, I was concerned about this, but no one spoke up...

It's not specific to the G5, that's just a common platform that it would 
work on, so I don't want to tie it to that.  Also, from what I understand, 
it is the pSeries OF that is running in real mode.  

So, what about zImage.elf-vmode or zImage.vmode?  Anyone have a request 
or suggestion?

-Geoff

> 
> On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:57, Geoff Levand wrote:
> 
>>Please consider for inclusion in the post 2.6.13 patches.
>>
>>-Geoff
>>
>>
>>
>>This patch makes it possible to build ppc64 kernel image files for all
>>targeted machines when several CONFIG_PPC_XXX machine type options are
>>enabled simultaneously.  To accomplish this it introduces two new
>> build
>>targets, zImage.rs6k and zImage.initrd.rs6, which will make the proper
>>ELF note header needed by pSeries machines.  It falls out from these
>>changes that compressed zImages for the Powermac G5 can now be built.
>>Previously only vmlinux images could be for that machine.
>>