Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Feb 2004 08:39:49 -0800 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: change kernel name |
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On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 07:04:26 -0500 "Nicholas Berry" <nikberry@med.umich.edu> wrote:
| Note the words 'after the compilation'.
I think that the other person who answered 'no' was close enough.
BTW, did you say what processor architecture and what kernel image file format? If it's a zipped kernel image, changing text in it is a bit tougher, I guess. If it's not zipped, almost anything could change that string (just not make it larger).
-- ~Randy
| >>> "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> 02/04/04 07:38AM | >>> | On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Gaspar Bakos wrote: | | > Hello, | > | > I have the following question: | > If I compile the kernel (2.4.*) and boot it in, then the | kernel-release, | > as shown by 'uname -r' will be the string that was in the | EXTRAVERSION | > string from the kernel Makefile. | > Is there any way to change this 'identity' of the kernel after the | > compilation? | > Such as | > changekernelname bzImage "newname" | | Put anything you want in the structure, system_utsname, in your copy | of | linux-nn-nn/init/version.c. | | Cheers, | Dick Johnson | Penguin : Linux version 2.4.24 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). | Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction. - 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/
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