From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 16:42:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 16:42:44 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:50444 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 16:42:43 -0500 Message-ID: <3E5BE59B.6000409@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:52:27 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Zytor Communications User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021119 X-Accept-Language: en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Russell King CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: zImage now holds vmlinux, System.map and config in sections. (fwd) References: <3C6BEE8B5E1BAC42905A93F13004E8AB017DE84C@mailse01.axis.se> <20030225092520.A9257@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20030225212457.G21014@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030225212457.G21014@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Russell King wrote: >> >>Isn't that what "strip" is for? > > zImage on ARM is a binary blob without any formatting. The first > instruction to be executed is at the start of the file. Perfect > for loading directly into flash or RAM via whatever boot loader > or debugger you choose. > Well, then it doesn't have sections. As far as I could see the original post only applied to architectures for which zImage is an ELF binary. Similarly, this will not exist on x86/x86-64 where the (b)zImage is mostly a binary blob. -hpa