Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: A couple "normal user" questions.. | From | Raja R Harinath <> | Date | 31 Jan 1997 13:09:23 -0600 |
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Philip Blundell <pjb27@cam.ac.uk> writes: > On Thu, 30 Jan 1997, Aaron Tiensivu wrote: [snip] > > /proc/config [snip] > I don't really think this would be worthwhile. You don't need to know at > runtime. If you want to do this, devise some scheme to embed information > into the kernel image with minimal overhead, and provide some program so > that you can say > > $ printconfig ./vmlinuz > > and it will tell you how the kernel in question was compiled.
Craig Milo Rogers <rogers@ISI.EDU> writes: > Another possibility, I suppose, would be to slip the .config > info into System.map somehow. I think that I would prefer it in the > kernel itself, however, to ensure maximum avialability when running > comparison tests on several kernels.
A new ELF section `.config', then.
- Hari
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