From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751463Ab1HJN1a (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:27:30 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:40534 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750772Ab1HJN13 (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:27:29 -0400 Message-ID: <4E428740.3030106@suse.cz> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:27:28 +0200 From: Michal Marek User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Corentin Chary Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts: add extract-vmlinux References: <1312465977-12388-1-git-send-email-corentin.chary@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1312465977-12388-1-git-send-email-corentin.chary@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 4.8.2011 15:52, Corentin Chary wrote: > This script can be used to extract vmlinux from a compressed > kernel image (bzImage, etc..). It's inspired from (a subset of) > extract-ikconfig. Nice. > I don't know if this scripts really have this place in the kernel > tree, but it's something a lot of people have been looking for (mainly > people with xen < 4 that doesn't support bzImages at all). I think it makes sense to have it in the tree. > Signed-off-by: Corentin Chary > --- > scripts/extract-vmlinux | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > create mode 100755 scripts/extract-vmlinux > > diff --git a/scripts/extract-vmlinux b/scripts/extract-vmlinux > new file mode 100755 > index 0000000..444f404 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/scripts/extract-vmlinux > @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ > +#!/bin/sh > +# ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > +# extract-vmlinux - Extract uncompressed vmlinux from a kernel image > +# > +# The obscure use of the "tr" filter is to work around older versions of > +# "grep" that report the byte offset of the line instead of the pattern. > +# > +# Inspired from extract-ikconfig > +# (c) 2009,2010 Dick Streefland > +# > +# (c) 2011 Corentin Chary > +# Licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. I guess you want to use the version 2 of the GPL? Michal