On 14 Sep 2004 12:48:42 -0000, matrix reloaded <matrix_reloaded18@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > I am going through the kbuild process and found that at some stage after > building vmlinux inside "/usr/src/linux/" somewhere kbuild uses objcopy to build > bzImage inside /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/compressed :- > Could anyone please explain why we are creating binary image of vmlinux here. We want a compressed kernel image that can uncompress itself and appear as an x86 boot sector image rather than a standard ELF executable file. Linux build procedures tend to rely upon objcopy a lot to remove unwanted sections from output files or to bodge in particular sections - for example the dummy stage adds several utilities to an image file which also contains the kernel image. I use objcopy on embedded boards to bundle a kernel image with bootloader and firmware in to one loadable image. Cheers, Jon. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
