From: mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com (Mulyadi Santosa)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: finding kernel jump address after "decompressing linux"
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:24:37 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTikhVgXNiiGO+ZHAuQ55_CoJO1rWUg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f837a0fa950d5d45d6b1e5e2969a25c3@basementcode.com>
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 20:05, Christopher Harvey
<chris@basementcode.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out what physical address the kernel jumps to
> after "Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.". IIRC, there
> are two parts to a kernel image, one compressed part and one
> uncompressed. The uncompressed code decompresses the compressed part and
> puts it into memory then jumps to it. I'm using an ARM kernel, version
> 2.6.38.
try to check the related ld script...for example, in x86 it's in
arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S and arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds. The
latter is generated during kernel compilation AFAIK.
--
regards,
Mulyadi Santosa
Freelance Linux trainer and consultant
blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com
training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-29 17:24 UTC|newest]
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2011-06-29 13:05 finding kernel jump address after "decompressing linux" Christopher Harvey
2011-06-29 17:24 ` Mulyadi Santosa [this message]
2011-06-30 5:39 ` Gavin Guo
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