Re: [LinuxBIOS] Tyan s2892 the OLPC way

[Lu, Yinghai]

Ron,

Where is patch for mkelfImage that can take vmlinux instead of bzImage?

YH

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Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] Tyan s2892 the OLPC way

On 10/29/06, yhlu  wrote:

but the one still include VSA and linuxbios in it.

busybox

you want this.

kernel
    kexec-boot-loader

you want this

kexec-tools 
    mkelfimage
    uclibc

do i need kexec-boot-loader?

yes

If you look in deploy, for now, you can use the payload, which is built
without containing linuxbios or vsa. That is how I got a working payload
for ultra40.

What we need to do with buildrom is extend it so we can have a config
file for a given platform, that builds the proper kernel AND linuxbios,
and has payloads like VSA as an OPTION. I think this is easy. I did it
(sort of) for qemu.

ron

[LinuxBIOS] Tyan s2892 the OLPC way

[ron minnich]

hmm, afaik mkelfimage always can take a vmlinux, but I shall look.

ron
p.s. I'm not typing much as I hurt my arm a few weeks ago so am taking it
easy on the keyboards. It's coming back but these things can be slow. Bear
with me.

[LinuxBIOS] Tyan s2892 the OLPC way

[Peter Stuge]

On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 05:09:27PM -0800, Lu, Yinghai wrote:
> Where is patch for mkelfImage that can take vmlinux instead of
> bzImage?

No patch needed, just specify -t vmlinux-i386 and it should work.
Run mkelfImage without parameters to see a list of supported kernel
types. I'm using version 2.7.

//Peter

[LinuxBIOS] Tyan s2892 the OLPC way

[Myles Watson]

The problem I had was when I wanted to use a 64-bit kernel.

Myles
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 05:09:27PM -0800, Lu, Yinghai wrote:
> > Where is patch for mkelfImage that can take vmlinux instead of
> > bzImage?
>
> No patch needed, just specify -t vmlinux-i386 and it should work.
> Run mkelfImage without parameters to see a list of supported kernel
> types. I'm using version 2.7.
>
> //Peter

[LinuxBIOS] Tyan s2892 the OLPC way

[Peter Stuge]

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 08:07:01AM -0700, Myles Watson wrote:
> The problem I had was when I wanted to use a 64-bit kernel.

Aha! linux-ia64 is the only non-i386 type, don't know if that will
work for you though. (I assume linux-i386!=bzimage-i386, maybe
there's a chance it will.)

//Peter