[U-Boot-Users] questions regarding entry point
Shawn Jin
shawnxjin at gmail.com
Thu Apr 13 02:38:21 CEST 2006
> image that is bootable by u-boot's 'bootm' command. My question is,
> since the instructions have you convert the vmlinux (elf) to a flat
> binary (linux.bin), how are you supposed to get the entry point to use
> later during the 'mkimage' step? The entry point is contained in the
> elf image but that information will be lost when converted to binary. I
> can certainly determine the entry point manually and enter it in that
> way. But how about an automated way such that the steps from the README
> can be put straight into the kernel Makefile?
Set both to zeros. You can take a look at the makefile
arch/ppc/boot/images/Makefile.
BTW, if you want to make uImage linux kernel, just type 'make uImage'.
uImage is an official target in Linux kernel.
Regards,
-Shawn.
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