Use bcl 20,31,0f rather than plain bl to avoid unbalancing the link stack. Update the code to use REL16 relocs, available for ppc64 in 2009 (and ppc32 in 2005). Signed-off-by: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> [mpe: Incorporate more detail into the change log] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To extract the kernel vmlinux, System.map, .config or initrd from the zImage binary: objcopy -j .kernel:vmlinux -O binary zImage vmlinux.gz objcopy -j .kernel:System.map -O binary zImage System.map.gz objcopy -j .kernel:.config -O binary zImage config.gz objcopy -j .kernel:initrd -O binary zImage.initrd initrd.gz Peter