Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Sep 2000 14:04:44 +0200 | From | almesber@lrc ... | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.2: /proc/config.gz |
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Andi Kleen wrote: > What you need is a bootloader than can read uncompressed vmlinux directly, > and use that for booting. Then you can always directly extract the System.map > out of the vmlinux using nm or gdb.
And then pass this information to the soon to be running system via e.g. an initrd ? I'm not sure this is a lot more efficient, and you've just created yet another set of dependencies.
Also, I' very sceptical about anything that requires non-trivial updates to all boot loaders.
- Werner
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