On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:18:38PM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Mel Gorman writes: > > > Yaboot in my case and I've heard it affected a DVD installation. I don't > > know for sure if it affects netboot but as I think it's something the > > kernel is doing, it probably doesn't matter how it gets loaded? > > I do need to know whether it was the vmlinux or the zImage.pseries > that you were loading with yaboot. That commit you identified affects > the contents of an ELF note in the zImage.pseries that firmware looks > at, as well as a structure in the kernel itself that gets passed as an > argument to a call to firmware. If you were loading a vmlinux with > yaboot when you saw the corruption occur then that narrows things down > a bit. >
It's the vmlinux file I am seeing problems with. -- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
