Re: preferred solution for building kernel.deb and defining Entry point address

[Marcus Osdoba <marcus.osdoba@googlemail.com>]

Am 13.07.2011 03:41, schrieb Ben Hutchings:
> On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 23:05 +0200, Marcus Osdoba wrote:
> > Am 12.07.2011 01:43, schrieb Ben Hutchings:
> > The commands on a recent amd64 Squeeze were:
> >
> > linux-src#>sudo make-kpkg --initrd --cross-compile powerpc-linux-gnu-
> > --arch powerpc --append-to-version +mikep5 kernel_image
> > linux-src#>sudo make KDEB_PKGVERSION=upstreamdebpkgcreatorNOINITRD.1.0
> > ARCH=powerpc CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux-gnu- deb-pkg
> >
> > linux-src#>sudo make ARCH=powerpc CROSS32_COMPILE=powerpc-linux-gnu-
> > CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux-gnu- zImage
>
> I think the problem may be that make-kpkg and make deb-pkg use the
> vmlinux file and not the zImage file which is what you need.
True. The default for powerpc seems to be vmlinux in any case. I tried 
to override it.
make deb-pkg: KBUILD_IMAGE=zImage -> That worked. The image inside the 
generated deb had the desired entry point of 0x600000.

make-kpkg: I tried the equivalent here (--zimage or IMAGE_TYPE=zImage). 
But that didn't work. The image inside the deb package still had 0xc0000000.

So it is still possible to use the "generate-deb"-scripts (at least the 
recommended one) for creating bootable Wii kernels.