On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 19:00 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 11, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
> > it's for sure the most ugly one. I could see the use of having modinfo
> > work on the vmlinux, and have the vmlinux have a VERMAGIC as well. It's
> > only a simple elf section after all, and a heck of a lot more defined
> > and standard...
>
> Just go for it. Remember there is also that bzImage thingy, no idea how
> its layed out, it has to work there too.
strings doesn't work there, it's a compressed image!
(well the first few bytes might be readable due to how compression
works)
also... can't you just know which vmlinux it is in the first place?
(or in other words, why is SLES the only one with the problem?)
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