[Buildroot] qemu_ppc_g3beige_defconfig kernel image type (with patch)

Bjørn Forsman bjorn.forsman at gmail.com
Sun Dec 19 16:04:05 UTC 2010


Hi,

2010/12/19 Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.forsman at gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm testing the new qemu_*_defconfig files (brilliant stuff!) but I think I have
> found a bug:
>
> qemu_ppc_g3beige_defconfig defines BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_VMLINUX=y, but after
> configuration the .config file ends up with BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_UIMAGE=y.
>
> According to linux/Config.in it seems like BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_VMLINUX is only
> supported on MIPS. I've attached a patch that changes the kernel format
> from vmlinux to zImage, as uImage is no good with QEMU :-)

I just realized that QEMU handles uImage very well, but I think the
patch is still valid.

Best regards,
Bjørn Forsman



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