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| author | Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 2005-11-16 13:38:21 +1100 |
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| committer | Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 2005-11-16 13:52:21 +1100 |
| commit | 94b212c29f685ca54b5689a8e89ac7671c43d651 (patch) | |
| tree | 356266520a5ba530b2a5b77b68e90e87a2402ecb /arch/powerpc/boot/README | |
| parent | 7486a38f683d49e6f8b2b9050ff06778b151a40c (diff) | |
powerpc: Move ppc64 boot wrapper code over to arch/powerpc
This also extends the code to handle 32-bit ELF vmlinux files as well
as 64-bit ones. This is sufficient for booting on new-world 32-bit
powermacs (i.e. all recent machines).
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/boot/README')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/boot/README | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/README b/arch/powerpc/boot/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..3e11058760e --- /dev/null +++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/README @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ + +To extract the kernel vmlinux, System.map, .config or initrd from the zImage binary: + +objcopy -j .kernel:vmlinux -O binary zImage vmlinux.gz +objcopy -j .kernel:System.map -O binary zImage System.map.gz +objcopy -j .kernel:.config -O binary zImage config.gz +objcopy -j .kernel:initrd -O binary zImage.initrd initrd.gz + + + Peter + |