About zImage, vmlinux and yaboot on IBM Power

Ryan Wang openspace.wang at gmail.com
Thu Oct 20 11:06:43 EST 2011


Thanks, Tony.

Can you help answer my above question?
Is it possible to use zImage without yaboot?

thanks,

2011/10/20 Tony Breeds <tony at bakeyournoodle.com>

> 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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