Messages in this thread |  | | From | Werner Almesberger <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.2: /proc/config.gz | Date | Fri, 1 Sep 2000 15:51:31 +0200 (MET DST) |
| |
Andi Kleen wrote: > I just don't see much advantage in a bzImage anymore, given the disk sizes > of modern computers.
My floppies are still 1.44MB ...
> For kernel debugging I prefer to have an unpacked vmlinux with symbol table.
Agreed, it's more elegant.
> Would it be that hard to make lilo support unpacked, > unmangled ELF kernels ?
Probably not too hard, but you have to convince John Coffman that it's worth doing (or send him a patch :-) I've written an ELF loader for bootimg(8), and it wasn't too difficult: ftp://icaftp.epfl.ch/pub/people/almesber/misc/bootimg-8.tar.gz
BTW, my plan is currently to put in place an infrastructure based on bootimg, which should be much more suitable for any advanced booting games than extensions to existing boot loaders or kernel-swallows- user-space hacks like nfsroot. Right now I'm working on getting newlib to do what I want. Well, I'm actually almost there: ftp://icaftp.epfl.ch/pub/people/almesber/misc/newlib-linux/ (main missing features: need more tools (mount, chroot, etc.), no networking, "configure" doesn't like my environment).
- Werner
-- _________________________________________________________________________ / Werner Almesberger, ICA, EPFL, CH werner.almesberger@ica.epfl.ch / /_IN_N_032__Tel_+41_21_693_6621__Fax_+41_21_693_6610_____________________/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
|  |