Re: apus and vmapus target ...

[Roman Z. <zi...@li...>]

Hi,

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Sven Luther wrote:

> I don't know if this is intentional or not, but i will simply ship the vmlinux
> now, and use the mkvmlinuz tool to produce the resulting kernel, which would
> be more in line with the rest of the powerpc subarches.
> 
> I have some questions concerning strip though, mkvmlinuz doesn't use strip,
> but objcopy -O binary, which produces slightly smaller sizes. Do you know if
> this would be ok for apus too, or will it strip too much ? 

No, this wouldn't work. The boot loader needs an ELF executable file, so 
it only works with the vmlinux file or a stripped and/or gzipped version 
of it.

bye, Roman