Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:27:28 +0200 | From | Michal Marek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] scripts: add extract-vmlinux |
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On 4.8.2011 15:52, Corentin Chary wrote: > This script can be used to extract vmlinux from a compressed > kernel image (bzImage, etc..). It's inspired from (a subset of) > extract-ikconfig.
Nice.
> I don't know if this scripts really have this place in the kernel > tree, but it's something a lot of people have been looking for (mainly > people with xen < 4 that doesn't support bzImages at all).
I think it makes sense to have it in the tree.
> Signed-off-by: Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@gmail.com> > --- > scripts/extract-vmlinux | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > create mode 100755 scripts/extract-vmlinux > > diff --git a/scripts/extract-vmlinux b/scripts/extract-vmlinux > new file mode 100755 > index 0000000..444f404 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/scripts/extract-vmlinux > @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ > +#!/bin/sh > +# ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > +# extract-vmlinux - Extract uncompressed vmlinux from a kernel image > +# > +# The obscure use of the "tr" filter is to work around older versions of > +# "grep" that report the byte offset of the line instead of the pattern. > +# > +# Inspired from extract-ikconfig > +# (c) 2009,2010 Dick Streefland <dick@streefland.net> > +# > +# (c) 2011 Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@gmail.com> > +# Licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
I guess you want to use the version 2 of the GPL?
Michal
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