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Message-ID: <479F70E9.40905@goop.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:31:05 -0800
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
CC: Ian Campbell <ijc@...lion.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: Re: PATCH/RFC: bzImage payload as compressed ELF file.
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> It's also easy enough to either use objdump -h or nm to extract info
> from vmlinux; or for some of the simpler stuff, just parse the ELF
> directly (perhaps using libelf).
>
> There is also the -R option to ld, which imports symbols from one
> executable into another.
Yes, I used -R, though it was necessary to generate a copy of vmlinux
with a filtered symbol list to prevent collisions. But I'm not sure any
of this is necessary with Ian's approach.
J
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