Re: PATCH/RFC: bzImage payload as compressed ELF file.

[H. Peter Anvin]

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> I solved that with some linker magic.  One of the things I did was get 
> rid of tools/build and did everything in the linker.  And I worked out a 
> trick where you can get the setup code to refer to vmlinux's symbols 
> without actually linking it in (no, wait, was that to solve something 
> else?).

It's also easy enough to either use objdump -h or nm to extract info 
from vmlinux; or for some of the simpler stuff, just parse the ELF 
directly (perhaps using libelf).

There is also the -R option to ld, which imports symbols from one 
executable into another.

	-hpa
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