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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 01:41:17 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTik0X8g3YmonUbOvHF_SODqZTiocTA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=BMNUFhM-0TzOL8Ofz6Zm1nVYamA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Mulyadi Santosa
<mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 03:04, Vikram Narayanan <vikram186@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The vmlinux is an ELF binary. right? If so, Who does the unpacking of
>> raw binary image from that ELF?
>
> why do you put concern on vmlinux anyway? boot loader loads vmlinuz,
> not vmlinux....
Yes. I agree. But how who converts the ELF binary to raw binary so
that the processor understands. Or how is it actually done?

Thanks,
Vikram

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-11 20:11 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 [this message]
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
2011-05-12 16:46   ` mindentropy

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