Re: docs on compiling kernels for miboot?
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 04:14:23AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 11:15:18AM +0100, Josh Berdine wrote:
> > > I'm hoping someone will know of some miboot/kernel docs that I haven't
> > > managed to uncover.
> > >
> > > The short story is that I need to know what sort of kernel images to
> > > build for booting with miboot. Should I tell make-kpkg "--zimage" or
> > > "--bzimage" and either way, which image file in the resulting package
> >
> > bzimage is a i386 specific kludge to work around that archetecture's
> > fundementally broken design.
> >
> > zImage is sometimes useful on powerpc, in this case not really.
>
> zImage is just the compressed vmlinux file, isn't it ? in this case it is
> needed for apus. That said, back then for when i was doing apus kernel work,
> and in charge of the -apus kernel images, i added a vmlinux.gz target to build
> the needed kernel. Are zImage and vmlinux.gz (also called vmlinuz) the same ?
No, zImage (for my CHRP LongTrail) is a gzipped vmlinux with an ELF header,
a gzip decompressor, and some glue code between these parts and Open Firmware.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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