linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 6/7] i386: make the bzImage payload an ELF file

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Message-Id: <200706062147.21225.rob@landley.net>
Date:	Wed, 6 Jun 2007 21:47:20 -0400
From:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...ibm.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	v12n <virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 6/7] i386: make the bzImage payload an ELF file

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
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