powerpc: Make the 64-bit kernel as a position-independent executable

[linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git] / arch / powerpc / boot / Makefile

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile
index 717a3bc1352e542d410e3713e2222e7ea2745516..6403275553ea71b24c79689605bfe8292e5a5d6e 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile
@@ -310,8 +310,11 @@ $(obj)/dtbImage.%: vmlinux $(wrapperbits) $(obj)/%.dtb
 $(obj)/vmlinux.strip: vmlinux
        $(STRIP) -s -R .comment $< -o $@
 
+# The iseries hypervisor won't take an ET_DYN executable, so this
+# changes the type (byte 17) in the file to ET_EXEC (2).
 $(obj)/zImage.iseries: vmlinux
        $(STRIP) -s -R .comment $< -o $@
+       printf "\x02" | dd of=$@ conv=notrunc bs=1 seek=17
 
 $(obj)/uImage: vmlinux $(wrapperbits)
        $(call if_changed,wrap,uboot)