PPC64 relocatable kernels (built with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y) have the type of ET_DYN. But yaboot code won't load the kernel if the ELF type is not ET_EXEC. Attached patch adds support to yaboot to load relocatable kernels also (ie load ET_DYN type also) Signed-off-by: M. Mohan Kumar --- second/yaboot.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- yaboot-1.3.14.orig/second/yaboot.c +++ yaboot-1.3.14/second/yaboot.c @@ -1606,7 +1606,7 @@ is_elf64(loadinfo_t *loadinfo) e->e_ident[EI_MAG3] == ELFMAG3 && e->e_ident[EI_CLASS] == ELFCLASS64 && e->e_ident[EI_DATA] == ELFDATA2MSB && - e->e_type == ET_EXEC && + (e->e_type == ET_EXEC || e->e_type == ET_DYN) && e->e_machine == EM_PPC64); }