On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 10:43:19AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote: > * Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [170831 09:21]: > > On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 01:05:16AM +0900, Roger Shimizu wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 12:49 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux > > > <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > What's the use case - what are you using the output of this script with? > > > > > > I already provided a use case, to trace a Debian kernel issue caused > > > by kernel size. > > > - https://bugs.debian.org/870185#50 > > > > Sorry, I haven't time to look - it needs me to use firefox on a > > different machine. Maybe you could help by providing some details > > by email, otherwise I've got extra work to do at some point in the > > future (probably days away) if I remember (your mail will get buried). > > Much of my time is in front of a _textual_ _only_ interface, and elinks > > does not work with several modern SSL-only sites. > > > > > I also see other people complaining this issue: > > > - https://bugs.launchpad.net/linaro-ubuntu/+bug/1050453 > > > - https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461 > > > > > > By a random web search, I find another blog post on how to dissamble the kernel. > > > - https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2016/03/08/how-to-extract-and-disassmble-a-linux-kernel-image-vmlinuz/ > > > > Yea, all SSL sites, I'm not going to try elinks with them, I don't > > have the time to mess around. > > I think the use case is to get the booted kernel size from zImage > to avoid overwriting dts or initramfs. Don't we already have that > at the end of zImage somewhere for kexec? We do, but finding where that is is difficult if a DTB has been appended as it's right at the end of the compressed data. kexec doesn't use it, it just assumes there's a 5x expansion of the kernel compressed image. -- RMK's Patch system: http://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/ FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line in suburbia: sync at 8.8Mbps down 630kbps up According to speedtest.net: 8.21Mbps down 510kbps up -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
