On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Dave Hylands <dhylands@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Vikram, > > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Vikram Narayanan <vikram186@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Sorry if this question is stupid. >> How the vmlinux (an ELF executable) is recognized by the processor? >> What are the files that are responsible for this? > > Well the short answer is that it isn't. > > The ELF file is normally just one stage of the process. You still need > to extract a binary from the ELF, and the binary contains the raw > executable code that the processor uses. > > Normally the boot loader will extract a binary (perhaps from an ELF, > or perhaps from a raw binary image) and this is what the processor > sees. So in case of x86, say Grub will be taking care of this extraction. Right? If, so the grub code will have the mechanisms for extracting the raw binary from ELF. Am i right? - Thanks, Vikram _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
