Re: AmigaONE && Debian (unstable?)

[Jens Schmalzing <j.s@lmu.de>]

Hi,

Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:

> > U-Boot comes with a tool that does more or less the same as
> > mkvmlinuz, called mkimage (takes in an elf and an optional ramdisk
> > image and outputs a bootable image)
> 
> That's crap.  Fine for embedded maybe, but it should really be able
> to load a plain vmlinux.

Does that include a ramdisk?  My understanding was that you need
either a bootloader or a bootable image like the one describer above
in order to boot an initrd kernel.  On sub-architectures that don't
have a bootloader, such as PReP or CHRP, this leaves only the bootable
image.

Regards, Jens.

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