From: Alex Elsayed <eternaleye@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: scripts/extract-ikconfig only works on uncompressed and CONFIG_KERNEL_GZIP kernels
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 01:45:23 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20101018T034339-27@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: loom.20101018T024559-314@post.gmane.org
Alex Elsayed <eternaleye <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> I have a kernel that was compiled with LZMA compression (CONFIG_KERNEL_LZMA). I
> wish to extract the .config from it without running it, but the script to do so
> does not support such kernels. How could I go about fixing this, so that the
> script supports other compression modes than just gzip?
>
>
I managed to extract the .config by abusing dd's skip= parameter to try feeding
every byte-offset to unlzma, but I am still interested in making the script work
with non-gzipped compressed kernels.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-18 1:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-18 0:48 scripts/extract-ikconfig only works on uncompressed and CONFIG_KERNEL_GZIP kernels Alex Elsayed
2010-10-18 1:42 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-10-18 1:48 ` Alex Elsayed
2010-10-18 1:45 ` Alex Elsayed [this message]
2010-10-18 2:43 ` Américo Wang
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