[PATCH] Allow yaboot to load relocatable kernel

M. Mohan Kumar mohan at in.ibm.com
Wed Feb 11 17:02:09 EST 2009


On Monday 15 December 2008 9:44:59 am Paul Mackerras wrote:
> 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>

Hi Paul,
Any update on this?

-- 
Regards,
M. Mohan Kumar



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