Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 1 Sep 2000 14:27:39 +0200 | From | "Andi Kleen" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.2: /proc/config.gz |
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On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 02:23:57PM +0200, almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch wrote: > I don't see the advantage over Alan's proposal of simply adding the > config data to the bzImage or whatever is the most common format on > the respective platform. You still have the same fundamental problem > to solve (i.e. accessing the file), plus you may need to extend the > boot loader(s) to support a new format ...
I just don't see much advantage in a bzImage anymore, given the disk sizes of modern computers. For kernel debugging I prefer to have an unpacked vmlinux with symbol table. Would it be that hard to make lilo support unpacked, unmangled ELF kernels ?
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