Re: question on linux elf image

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Hi Sri,

Could you share the document with us please?

Thanks,
Nanja

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 1:58 AM, Balraj Dahiya <dahbal76@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Sri,
>
> Can you please send me this document?
>
> Thanks,
> Balraj
>
> --- On Thu, 10/16/08, sahlot arvind <asahlot@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: sahlot arvind <asahlot@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: question on linux elf image
> To: "Sri Ram K Vemulpali" <vsriramksh@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Dhaval Shah" <osbydhaval@xxxxxxxxx>, kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008, 11:15 PM
>
> Hey Sri,
>
> can you send over the attached document?
> Thanks
>
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Sri Ram K Vemulpali <vsriramksh@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> Thank you Dhaval. Seems to be very good explanation of boot process and
>> architecture. I will look in to it.
>>
>> Sri
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 2:33 AM, Dhaval Shah <osbydhaval@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> The attatched document will be helpful to understand linux boot
>>> process and clear your doubts...
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Dhaval
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Sri Ram K Vemulpali
>>> <vsriramksh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> > Hi all,
>>> >
>>> >     The reason is, I tried without compressing. I made elf image and
>>> > did
>>> > not execute (make bzimage) and copied all the kernel and symbols to
>>> > /boot
>>> > dir and modified config file and tried to boot the kernel. I got two
>>> > errors
>>> > 1. insufficient memory 2. did not boot. What is the reason. thank you.
>>> >
>>> > Sri
>>> >
>>> > On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:24 AM, Henrik Austad <henrikau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> On Monday 06 October 2008 22:53:10 Sri Ram K Vemulpali wrote:
>>> >> > hi all,
>>> >> >
>>> >> >     I have a doubt? why is that kernel has to be compress the image
>>> >> > file
>>> >> > to
>>> >> > copy to boot dir, to boot the kernel. I did not get why we do
>>> >> > compressing
>>> >> > image file after we compile the kernel code. Any answers would be
>>> >> > helpful.
>>> >> > Thank you.
>>> >>
>>> >> Most likely because decompressing an image takes less time than it
>>> >> would
>>> >> take
>>> >> to read the uncompressed image from disk. So, in other words, to save
>>> >> time.
>>> >>
>>> >> Slap me silly if I'm wrong :)
>>> >>
>>> >> > Sri
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> --
>>> >> med vennlig hilsen - Yours Sincerely,
>>> >> Henrik Austad
>>> >
>>> >
>>
>
>
>
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