[ipxe-devel] Loader can only do ELF or bz2

Robin Smidsrød robin at smidsrod.no
Thu May 19 17:51:01 UTC 2016


On 17.05.2016 18:44, Chris Foran wrote:
> We are trying to get iPXE to be loaded by Intel’s ABL (Automotive Boot
> Loader).  ABL does some of the things a BIOS would do, but is highly
> stripped down and doesn’t provide a user interface.  It is designed to
> load either an ELF or bz2 (Linux kernel) image.  Does anyone have any
> advice for producing an iPXE image in ELF? 

ipxe.lkrn which you get by running make bin/ipxe.lkrn is a bzImage Linux
kernel format. Does that work with ABL?

-- Robin



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