[Skiboot] [PATCH] mambo: Get the zImage from an environment variable

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Dec 15 14:11:11 AEDT 2014


Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> writes:

> On Mon, 2014-12-15 at 12:40 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>> On Mon, 2014-12-15 at 11:52 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> > Rather than hard coding /tmp/zImage.epapr, get the zImage from an environment
>> > variable.
>> > 
>> > This is a) cleaner, and b) allows running multiple copies of the
>> > simulator against different kernels simultaneously.
>> 
>> This is already what mconfig is about... ie, just set "PAYLOAD",
>> the /tmp one is just a fallback.
>> 
>> (Or did I screw something up and it doesn't work ?)
>
> No I have tunnel vision. I even copied the mconfig code :)
>
> #ignore
>
> cheers

I liked not grabbing something in /tmp though... so merged it for that
reason. (also useful because I want to use it in a test)



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