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-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile3
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/boot/elf_util.c6
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile
index 717a3bc1352e..6403275553ea 100644
--- 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)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/elf_util.c b/arch/powerpc/boot/elf_util.c
index 7454aa4cc20c..1567a0c0f05c 100644
--- 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;