From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>,
Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Steve Fox <drfickle@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-git13: uts banner changes break SLES9 (at least)
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:16:17 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <457DCAA1.7000705@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061211201552.GB20960@thunk.org>
Theodore Tso wrote:
>
> As far as whether or not it should be _mandatory_, to be able to pull
> out the version information from an arbitrary bzImage file, can folks
> agree that it would at least be a nice-to-have feature? Sometimes
> when you're out in the field you don't know what you're faced with,
> especially if you're dealing with a customer who likes to build their
> own kernels, and who might not have, ah, a very well defined release
> process. Sure, you can _call_ them incompetent, and it might even be
> true, but wouldn't be nice if there was an easy way to look at a
> bzImage file and be able to tell what kernel version it was built
> from?
>
There is a documented procedure for doing exactly that.
See Documentation/i386/boot.txt for details; there is a pointer in the
header which points to a cleartext string, even if the kernel is compressed.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-11 21:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-11 15:11 2.6.19-git13: uts banner changes break SLES9 (at least) Andy Whitcroft
2006-12-11 16:33 ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 16:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 16:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 18:04 ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 18:18 ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 18:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 18:29 ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-12-11 18:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 18:55 ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 19:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 22:04 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-12-11 22:04 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-12-12 0:05 ` David Miller
2006-12-12 0:05 ` David Miller
2006-12-12 9:10 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-12-12 9:10 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2006-12-11 19:20 ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-12-11 19:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 22:42 ` Andy Whitcroft
2006-12-11 19:37 ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-12-11 19:56 ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 20:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 20:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 20:21 ` Greg KH
2006-12-11 20:16 ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 20:15 ` Theodore Tso
2006-12-11 20:23 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-11 21:16 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-12-11 18:49 ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-12 12:23 ` Mach-O binary format support and Darwin syscall personality [Was: uts banner changes] Kyle Moffett
2006-12-12 16:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-12 17:56 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-12-12 18:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-12 22:34 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-12-12 22:38 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-12-12 22:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-12 22:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-12-15 12:53 ` Pavel Machek
2006-12-11 17:50 ` 2.6.19-git13: uts banner changes break SLES9 (at least) Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 17:57 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-11 18:00 ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 18:08 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-11 18:14 ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 19:03 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-11 19:37 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-11 18:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 18:40 ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 18:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 19:34 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-12-11 21:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
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