Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932598AbWBTECc (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Feb 2006 23:02:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932603AbWBTECc (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Feb 2006 23:02:32 -0500 Received: from nproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.182.194]:18049 "EHLO nproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932602AbWBTECb convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Feb 2006 23:02:31 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=LofP2dlqdV0utmaN40gzEB+QSqPx577nQz1Hu3Nr5eUb7Dn3tQX9iWFi4wfPoQua0xKa9i/9oSiZTImgWWfRfvEyE/5qLYfx5iu2XlPEsCZ18Otw4s3xyhY4jwx3NM9CJTWHM2sz/zEHdA0Fgr5HqGKYSxx7PEvNYqGsEfzL2j0= Message-ID: <993d182d0602192002n727dd0b3gf4426527dd5b61a5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:32:29 +0530 From: "Conio sandiago" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Magic numbers ? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 614 Lines: 19 Hi All, I want to know about the magic numbers in the uImage of linux kernel, I want to know how is this magic number calculated ? I am having 2 images in the flash memory, One is linux kernel image - which has a magic number of 0x27051956, and second image is ramdisk, whose magic number is also the same , How come this is tru? can anyone please help. Thanks conio - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/