On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 2:03 AM, Manohar Vanga <manohar.vanga@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Vikram, > >> How the vmlinux (an ELF executable) is recognized by the processor? > > ELF is just a file format. That is, the machine instructions and data are > stored in a specific format. The _processor_ simply recognizes machine > instructions and this needs to be taken from the ELF file and loaded into > memory (the instruction pointer is then pointed to the place the > instructions were loaded). Hope everyone here got my question wrong. I am aware that ELF is a format and there will be specific loader for loading ELF files. Please refer to the previous reply. Thanks, Vikram _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
