Re: [PATCH] scripts: add extract-vmlinux

[Corentin Chary]

2011/8/10 Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx>:
> On 4.8.2011 15:52, Corentin Chary wrote:
>> This script can be used to extract vmlinux from a compressed
>> kernel image (bzImage, etc..). It's inspired from (a subset of)
>> extract-ikconfig.
>
> Nice.
>
>
>> I don't know if this scripts really have this place in the kernel
>> tree, but it's something a lot of people have been looking for (mainly
>> people with xen < 4 that doesn't support bzImages at all).
>
> I think it makes sense to have it in the tree.
>
>
>> Signed-off-by: Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> Âscripts/extract-vmlinux | Â 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> Â1 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>> Âcreate mode 100755 scripts/extract-vmlinux
>>
>> diff --git a/scripts/extract-vmlinux b/scripts/extract-vmlinux
>> new file mode 100755
>> index 0000000..444f404
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/scripts/extract-vmlinux
>> @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
>> +#!/bin/sh
>> +# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> +# extract-vmlinux - Extract uncompressed vmlinux from a kernel image
>> +#
>> +# The obscure use of the "tr" filter is to work around older versions of
>> +# "grep" that report the byte offset of the line instead of the pattern.
>> +#
>> +# Inspired from extract-ikconfig
>> +# (c) 2009,2010 Dick Streefland <dick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> +#
>> +# (c) 2011 Â Â ÂCorentin Chary <corentin.chary@xxxxxxxxx>
>> +# Licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
>
> I guess you want to use the version 2 of the GPL?

Since it's heavily based on extract-ikconfig I'm not sure I can change
the license.
CCing previous authors of extract-ikconfig to see if they are ok with that.

Thanks,

-- 
Corentin Chary
http://xf.iksaif.net
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