Re: [PATCH v5 04/13] powerpc: Factor out relocation code from module_64.c to elf_util_64.c.
From: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Date: 2016-08-23 03:21:27
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zImage on ppc64 BE is an ELF32 file. This patch set only supports loading ELF files of the same class as the kernel, so a 64 bit kernel can't load an ELF32 file. It would be possible to add such support, but it would be a new feature. The distros I was able to check on ppc64 LE and BE all use vmlinux. kexec-tools with kexec_load also doesn't support zImage. Do you think it is important to support zImage?
Well if it didn't work already, I think its low priority. Michael should be able to confirm this. Oliver's been trying to cleanup the zImage to get rid the old zImage limitation, cc'ing him Balbir Singh