FYI: new package for creating ppc OpenFirmware bootable kernel images
Seen in Debian Weekly News:
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/mkvmlinuz
This little program takes a PowerPC Linux kernel as an uncompressed ELF
image file (usually called vmlinux or somesuch) and adds boot code and
possibly a ramdisk to create a compressed kernel image that can be
booted directly from Open Firmware, thus eliminating the need for a
second-stage bootloader such as yaboot or quik. This is especially
useful on PowerPC sub-architectures that do not have a bootloader at
all, but may also come handy for install kernels, netboot systems and
the like.
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Peter.Karbaliotis@ualberta.ca 780-492-7660
Computing and Network Services University of Alberta
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