powerpc: Move ppc64 boot wrapper code over to arch/powerpc

This also extends the code to handle 32-bit ELF vmlinux files as well
as 64-bit ones.  This is sufficient for booting on new-world 32-bit
powermacs (i.e. all recent machines).

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/README b/arch/powerpc/boot/README
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3e11058760e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/README
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+
+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
+