Re: apus and vmapus target ...

[Sven L. <sve...@wa...>]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 02:48:24PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> 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.

Ok, was also my guess, i suppose that you now use the vmlinux file and gzip
it manually, right ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther