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From: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dan Aloni <da-x@monatomic.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add ELF note with Linux version
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:52:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070914075234.GI30366@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46E9B22B.1000002@goop.org>

* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> [2007-09-13 23:56]:
> 
> > I'd like to know a little bit more about why this is needed, how it will be
> > used, etc.  And given that this feature is intended to improve life for
> > distributors, it would be nice to get some feedback from the appropriate
> > persons.
> 
> Hm, yes.  ELF notes don't appear in the bzImage, since it isn't an ELF
> file, so perhaps this doesn't satisfy the requirement.  It would help to
> have more detail.

the bzImage already contains the version (and much more, e.g. if the
kernel is relocatable, the command line length it accepts). See
Documentation/i386/boot.txt.



Thanks,
   Bernhard

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-14  7:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-04 15:00 [PATCH] Add ELF note with Linux version Bernhard Walle
2007-09-06 10:36 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-09-13 21:42   ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-13 21:56     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-09-14  7:52       ` Bernhard Walle [this message]
2007-09-14 20:00         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-09-13 22:13     ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-13 22:44       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-09-14  6:08         ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-14 19:47           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-09-14 21:07             ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-14 21:15               ` Roland McGrath
2007-09-14 21:31               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-09-15  1:30                 ` Roland McGrath

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