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

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

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/elf_util.c b/arch/powerpc/boot/elf_util.c
index 7454aa4cc20c6a76068c4c2a54e0bf910a2becbd..1567a0c0f05c6639a96ce4947dfb9bdf23eda8fc 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/elf_util.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/elf_util.c
@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ int parse_elf64(void *hdr, struct elf_info *info)
              elf64->e_ident[EI_MAG3]  == ELFMAG3       &&
              elf64->e_ident[EI_CLASS] == ELFCLASS64    &&
              elf64->e_ident[EI_DATA]  == ELFDATA2MSB   &&
-             elf64->e_type            == ET_EXEC       &&
+             (elf64->e_type            == ET_EXEC ||
+              elf64->e_type            == ET_DYN)      &&
              elf64->e_machine         == EM_PPC64))
                return 0;
 
@@ -58,7 +59,8 @@ int parse_elf32(void *hdr, struct elf_info *info)
              elf32->e_ident[EI_MAG3]  == ELFMAG3       &&
              elf32->e_ident[EI_CLASS] == ELFCLASS32    &&
              elf32->e_ident[EI_DATA]  == ELFDATA2MSB   &&
-             elf32->e_type            == ET_EXEC       &&
+             (elf32->e_type            == ET_EXEC ||
+              elf32->e_type            == ET_DYN)      &&
              elf32->e_machine         == EM_PPC))
                return 0;