Bug#759389: linux: ppc64el: do NOT switch to vmlinu*z*
On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 10:31:29AM -0300, Mauricio Faria de Oliveira wrote:
> Hi Aurelien,
>
> On 08/29/2014 06:49 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> >On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 10:15:47AM -0300, Mauricio Faria de Oliveira wrote:
> >>>I have to ask you to please revert the vmlinu*z* patch.
> >>>
> >>>Some of the ppc64el target platforms can only boot vmlinu*x*
> >>>(no support for compressed kernels).
> >>>
> >>>Really sorry for taking your time.
> >No problem, I have just reverted this.
>
> Thanks for reverting it.
>
> (If it's not too much too ask, now that the revert-panic [for me] ended)
>
> We can drop the patch 'ppc64el-disable-zImage.patch' now that the zImage
> targets (i.e., zImage.pseries) don't cause build errors anymore.
>
> The attached debdiff does that.
>
> It was actually part of the previous patch.. so I probably should have
> asked you to just revert the 'defines' changes previously.. apologies;
> but I couldn't let go another thing like this w/out re-testing it. :/
>
> I have successfully built linux-3.16-1~exp1 with it, and booted on that
> platform I mentioned (just to /triple/-check the vmlinux file had no
> sign of vmlinuz compression whatsoever.. even knowing this is dumb :).
Thanks, I have just committed your patch.
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