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From: vikram186@gmail.com (Vikram Narayanan)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: How vmlinux is recognized?
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 09:04:22 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=QoXZV9H_r7BOzV5sWVQw--iQZbQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTim3dC6EY3d5ZBhCmmtZBiHbKL+Sew@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 2:03 AM, Manohar Vanga <manohar.vanga@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Vikram,
>
>> How the vmlinux (an ELF executable) is recognized by the processor?
>
> ELF is just a file format. That is, the machine instructions and data are
> stored in a specific format. The _processor_ simply recognizes machine
> instructions and this needs to be taken from the ELF file and loaded into
> memory (the instruction pointer is then pointed to the place the
> instructions were loaded).

Hope everyone here got my question wrong. I am aware that ELF is a
format and there will be specific loader for loading ELF files. Please
refer to the previous reply.

Thanks,
Vikram

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-12  3:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-11 18:06 How vmlinux is recognized? Vikram Narayanan
2011-05-11 19:17 ` Dave Hylands
2011-05-11 19:31   ` Vikram Narayanan
2011-05-11 19:45     ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-05-11 20:04       ` Vikram Narayanan
2011-05-11 20:09         ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-05-11 20:11           ` Vikram Narayanan
2011-05-11 20:21             ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-05-12  3:32               ` Vikram Narayanan
2011-05-12  4:32                 ` Sudheer Divakaran
2011-05-12  6:21                   ` Sudheer Divakaran
2011-05-12  7:26                     ` luca ellero
2011-05-12  8:17                 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-05-13  0:19                   ` Vikram Narayanan
2011-05-13  1:42                     ` Dave Hylands
2011-05-16  3:14                       ` Vikram Narayanan
2011-05-16  3:44                       ` Peter Teoh
2011-05-16 14:12                         ` Vikram Narayanan
2011-05-12  9:31                 ` अनुज
2011-05-11 20:33 ` Manohar Vanga
2011-05-12  3:34   ` Vikram Narayanan [this message]
2011-05-12 16:46   ` mindentropy

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