On Wed, Jun 08, 2022 at 09:52:25PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > What's the motivation for using the zImage?
You cannot boot a vmlinux from OF directly, with most PowerPC OF implementations. You *can* boot a zImage directly (with some trickery sometimes). That is one reason to use zImage, probably not a very important reason for most people though. Segher