[PATCH] Allow yaboot to load relocatable kernel

Paul Mackerras paulus at samba.org
Mon Dec 15 15:14:59 EST 2008


M. Mohan Kumar writes:

> PPC64 relocatable kernels (built with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y) have the type of
> ET_DYN. But yaboot code won't load the kernel if the ELF type is not
> ET_EXEC. Attached patch adds support to yaboot to load relocatable kernels
> also (ie load ET_DYN type also)
> 
> Signed-off-by: M. Mohan Kumar <mohan at in.ibm.com>

Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>



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