Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935313AbXFGBsE (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 21:48:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S936396AbXFGBrm (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 21:47:42 -0400 Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:52825 "EHLO grelber.thyrsus.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936368AbXFGBrl (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 21:47:41 -0400 From: Rob Landley To: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 6/7] i386: make the bzImage payload an ELF file Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 21:47:20 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge , "Eric W. Biederman" , Vivek Goyal , Rusty Russell , Andi Kleen , v12n , lkml References: <20070606225837.654272428@goop.org> <20070606230922.476662240@goop.org> <4667462A.2010404@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <4667462A.2010404@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200706062147.21225.rob@landley.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 735 Lines: 17 On Wednesday 06 June 2007 7:41 pm, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > This makes vmlinux (normally stripped) recoverable from the bzImage file > and so anything that is currently booting vmlinux would be serviced by > this scheme. Would this make it sane to strip the initramfs image out of vmlinux with objdump and replace it with another one, or are there offsets resolved during the build that stop that for vmlinux? Rob -- The Google cluster became self-aware at 2:14am EDT August 29, 2007... - 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/