About zImage, vmlinux and yaboot on IBM Power

Tony Breeds tony at bakeyournoodle.com
Thu Oct 20 09:21:50 EST 2011


On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 02:45:46PM +0800, Ryan Wang wrote:
> In the kennel doc,
> http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v3.0.3/Documentation/powerpc/bootwrapper.txt
> it says zImage add boot wrapper to vmlinux.
> 
> If yaboot boot zImage, then the control would be
>      yaboot -> boot wrapper used by zImage -> vmlinux,
> right?

Yes that is correct.

Yours Tony
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