Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 2 Sep 2000 19:03:26 +0100 | From | Philipp Rumpf <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.2: /proc/config.gz |
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On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 02:27:39PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 02:23:57PM +0200, almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch wrote: > > I don't see the advantage over Alan's proposal of simply adding the > > config data to the bzImage or whatever is the most common format on > > the respective platform. You still have the same fundamental problem > > to solve (i.e. accessing the file), plus you may need to extend the > > boot loader(s) to support a new format ... > > I just don't see much advantage in a bzImage anymore, given the disk sizes > of modern computers. For kernel debugging I prefer to have an unpacked > vmlinux with symbol table. Would it be that hard to make lilo support unpacked, > unmangled ELF kernels ?
it certainly isn't too hard for other architectures' boot loaders. I think it'd definitely be a win to make more of the boot process architecture- independent, and ELF takes care of word-size and endianness issues nicely. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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