[coreboot] CoreBoot and Payloads

Piotr Brostovski p.brostovski at levigo.de
Mon Feb 2 18:18:30 CET 2009


Hi,

Peter Stuge schrieb:
> Piotr Brostovski wrote:
>> file gpxe.lkrn
>> gpxe.lkrn: Linux/i386 Kernel, Setup Version 0x207, zImage
> 
> zImage is not supported by mkelfImage AFAIK.

is a zImage not an vmlinux-i386?
Is there a possibility to build a gpxe rom as a bzImage?

or can be one of the following targets somehow be used to make directly an executable elf
image or something that can be handled by mkelfImage?

bin/deps/arch/i386/prefix/bImageprefix.S.d
bin/deps/arch/i386/prefix/bootpart.S.d
bin/deps/arch/i386/prefix/comprefix.S.d
bin/deps/arch/i386/prefix/dskprefix.S.d
bin/deps/arch/i386/prefix/elf_dprefix.S.d
bin/deps/arch/i386/prefix/elfprefix.S.d
bin/deps/arch/i386/prefix/exeprefix.S.d
bin/deps/arch/i386/prefix/hdprefix.S.d
bin/deps/arch/i386/prefix/kpxeprefix.S.d
bin/deps/arch/i386/prefix/libprefix.S.d
bin/deps/arch/i386/prefix/lkrnprefix.S.d
bin/deps/arch/i386/prefix/lmelf_dprefix.S.d
bin/deps/arch/i386/prefix/lmelf_prefix.S.d
bin/deps/arch/i386/prefix/mbr.S.d
bin/deps/arch/i386/prefix/nbiprefix.S.d
bin/deps/arch/i386/prefix/nullprefix.S.d
bin/deps/arch/i386/prefix/pxeprefix.S.d
bin/deps/arch/i386/prefix/romprefix.S.d
bin/deps/arch/i386/prefix/unnrv2b.S.d
bin/deps/arch/i386/prefix/usbdisk.S.d

> 
> 
> Although 2.4 should work it might be nice to build a recent 2.6
> kernel, which has been used with mkelfImage recently, just to check
> that mkelfImage actually works.

i try to throw everything out that isn't needed t boot, we'll see how small it get.

> 
> One other option is to find a larger flash chip. Which chip is your
> board using now?
> 

only 4MBit Chips
SST 39SF040
AMIC A29040A


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Regards,
Piotr




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