Subject: Re: compiling PPC kernel on i386
From: Andrew Gaffney (andrew_gaffney@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Feb 12 2002 - 10:00:25 MST
i followed those steps. i seem to remember reading
that mklinux can't use compressed kernel images.
doesn't make zImage gzip the kernel? should i do make
vmlinux?
--- Bo Brinkman <brinkman@cs.princeton.edu> wrote:
> Shouldn't be. You did
> make zImage
> instead of
> make
> right? And you are using the arch/ppc/appleboot/Mach
> Kernel? The steps I
> posted at
>
http://nubus.tuxppc.org/plain_page.php?caller=powermaclinux.php3+record=84
>
> work for me cross-compiling just fine.
>
> Bo
>
> Andrew Gaffney wrote:
>
> > i successfully built a kernel but the mklinux
> booter
> > just hung trying to boot it. is a compiled-in
> ramdisk
> > image required even if you don't use it?
> >
> > --- Bo Brinkman <brinkman@cs.princeton.edu> wrote:
> >
> >>See
> http://penguinppc.org/embedded/cross-compiling/
> >>
> >>This is how I build for my 6100 and 7100, and it
> >>works great.
> >>
> >>Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>i want to compile a new kernel to be used on my
> >>>PowerMac 6100 with YDL 2.1. since i don't have it
> >>>working right yet, all i have is my Athlon 750
> >>>
> >>linux
> >>
> >>>box. does gcc have support for ppc? i tricked the
> >>>kernel menuconfig into thinking it was
> configuring
> >>>
> >>for
> >>
> >>>a ppc. but how do i get gcc to put out ppc
> >>>
> >>instructions?
> >>
>
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