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

[H. Peter Anvin]

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > 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. 
>
> Yes, I used -R, though it was necessary to generate a copy of vmlinux 
> with a filtered symbol list to prevent collisions.  But I'm not sure any 
> of this is necessary with Ian's approach.

Probably isn't.  He just need the start and possibly length of the 
payload section, which should be objdump -h or equivalently reading the 
ELF section table.

	-hpa
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