[PATCH 0/7] Re-organize linker layouts

[linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 10:28:22AM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> On 07/06/2011 03:22 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > The following series of patches are targetted at two issues:
> >
> > 1. Fixing large initramfs causing PC24 relocations to become out of
> >    range.  This fixes both modules and link-time errors.
> >
> > 2. Making the vmlinux easier to pinpoint the various section-built
> >    data structures and inspect them later.
> >
> > For the main kernel, this allows the size of various sections to be
> > determined via objdump -h.  This also aids objdump -d and -s usage
> > when asking it to target a particular section.
> >
> > For the decompressor, it means that it is now trivially possible to copy
> > out the compressed kernel vmlinux image by:
> >
> >   arm-linux-objcopy -O binary -j .piggydata arch/arm/boot/compressed/vmlinux \
> > 	piggy.gz
> >
> > and thereby obtain the binary kernel image (the Image file) which was
> > originally used.
> 
> I gave this series a test with my poison initmem patch and all looks well
> 
> Tested-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
> 
> except for patch 2 as I didn't use a zImage.

Oh, what did you use instead?  I thought no one used the Image files
anymore...