Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:31:05 -0800 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: PATCH/RFC: bzImage payload as compressed ELF file. |
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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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